Mailinglist Archive: radeonhd (223 mails)

[Coleman Kane <cokane@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 14:33 +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> On Jun 05, 08 01:59:49 +0100, R.M. Thomas wrote:
> > From the character-based console in Ubuntu's "recovery mode" I set 
> > "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/xorg_git/lib" and then ran "startx -- 
> > /opt/xorg_git/bin/Xorg".  I got a sensible display (xterm under fvwm as 
> > specified in .xinitrc) but this display would not accept any input from 
> > keyboard or mouse.  I could, however, drop back to the character-based 
> > console with Ctrl-F1 as usual.
>
> The strange thing is, the server doesn't even *try* to load mouse and
> keyboard. Which is weird, because I thought the newer Xserver autoload
> everything necessary...
>
> > X.Org X Server 1.5.99.1
>
> Did I miss something there? master is at 1.4.99 something.

master is tracking 1.6 (1.5.99.x) development, the server-1.5-branch is
tracking 1.4.99.x development.

Should we be pulling from that, instead?

> > Release Date: 5 September 2007
>
> This doesn't look a recent Xserver. Did you get the right sources? Maybe
> a wrong branch?

That's what it says in the message on mine too, though I am guessing
that the "release date" is only updated for the formal releases. 

> > Section "InputDevice"
> >     Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
> >     Driver          "kbd"
> >     Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
> >     Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
> >     Option          "XkbLayout"     "gb"
> >     Option          "XkbOptions"    "lv3:ralt_switch"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >     Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
> >     Driver          "mouse"
> >     Option          "CorePointer"
> > EndSection
> [...]
> > Section "ServerLayout"
> >     Identifier      "Default Layout"
> >     screen          "Default Screen"
>
> Missing
>
>   InputDevice  "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
>   InputDevice  "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer"
>
> here for older Xservers that don't autoload these.
>
> Matthias
>
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Coleman Kane

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