On 5th June I wrote:
Before attempting to build with the older xserver I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf to include the option "CoreKeyboard" for InputDevice "Generic Keyboard". (The option "CorePointer" for InputDevice "Configured Mouse" was already present.) This edit had no effect: the display still did not accept input from keyboard or mouse.
I must retract this. I have discovered that I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf wrongly. I made a correction yesterday so that the layout section became what you suggested: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Configured Mouse" "CorePointer" EndSection whereupon the keyboard and mouse functioned perfectly! I'm sorry to have caused unnecessary confusion over this. Lack of sleep. Everything seems fine now. Xorg.0.log shows no errors, glxinfo confirms "direct rendering: Yes" and glxgears works well without using much cpu time. In summary, the problems I reported were solved as follows: (1) The first build with --prefix=/usr was contaminated by stale headers in /usr/include. (2) The second build with --prefix=/opt/xorg_git gave inactive mouse and keyboard because my existing xorg.conf had a minimal layout section which was not parsed properly by the master version of xserver cloned by git. (The second build fortuitously avoided the "/etc/depmod.d/ubuntu.conf" problem identified by David Morrison because I luckily used insmod to manually load the newly built *.ko modules.) Thanks for the help and advice. I've needed to learn quite a lot of new stuff on this one. Mike ASUS P2-M2A690G, AMD Athlon64 X2 4800+, Ubuntu Hardy 32-bit, ATI Radeon 1250 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: radeonhd+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: radeonhd+help@opensuse.org