-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re:xorg-x11-drv-evdev-7.0.1-2 bad! From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@xxxxxxxxx> To: Development discussions related to Fedora <fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun 19 Oct 2008 13:19:12 EEST > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:20:19AM +0300, George Billios wrote: >> I will also send you mine by email because I was hit by the same problem >> even if the updated xorg-x11-server-Xorg was installed. > > Summary from our short email exchange: > If you have an xorg.conf that registers an evdev device, this device will now > produce duplicate events. For most setups, you probably don't need it in your > xorg.conf because HAL picks it up anyway. If you really do, add option > "GrabDevice" "true" and that'll restore the old grabbing behaviour. > >> In the mean time I would advice to reverse back to the old behaviour, >> since it is way to close to the F10 release to do these kind of changes. > > No. the old behaviour is too broken, and it's good that it's finally fixed. > "Macintosh mouse button emulation" and the keys that control volume, suspend, > etc. are broken in the old behaviour, and that's a quite serious regression > from F9. > > Cheers, > Peter > Well I must agree that no device section worked better than I expected but it required manually editing the xorg.conf and deleting the respective section. What happens with all the people upgrading from F9? Will the Xorg rpm handle this? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
