Re: Possible Major bug in X.org update

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Le dimanche 21 septembre 2008 à 16:45 +0930, Peter Hutterer a écrit :
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:43:15PM -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> >    I just updated my F9 system and when I restarted my box, my USB
> >    keyboard will not work.  It works under console mode and my USB mouse
> >    continues to work.  This is a major issue (for me at least) due to the
> >    fact that I have no PS/2 ports and this makes Fedora unusable.
> >    Mark Bidewell
> 
> The update to 1.5.0 pulled in an upstream change to input driver loading when
> no xorg is present or incomplete ServerLayouts are given. As a result, the kbd
> driver is not loaded automatically if no xorg.conf is present. This combines
> with the F9 patch to disable evdev keyboards - resulting in no keyboard being
> available.

So what? the F9 patch to disable evdev keyboards already resulted in no
keyboards on some systems, latest upstream change only made this result
more common.

> As said before, xorg-x11-server-1.5.0-2.fc9 reverts the upstream change and
> kbd is now loaded automatically unless explicitly specified otherwise.

I hope that someday we'll stop working at cross-purposes with upstream
on input (given that Fedora derivatives like OLPC already use evdev)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot

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