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  • From: George Sherwood <pilot AT beernabeer.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Keyboard and Mouse in xorg-server 1.5.3
  • Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:42:58 -0600

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:34:32 -0800
Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:

> All,
>
> If, after updating to xorg-server 1.5.3, you no longer have the use of
> a standard keyboard or mouse (using the kbd or mouse drivers), you
> will want to add the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
> EndSection
>
>
> Otherwise devices using the kbd and mouse drivers will be disabled.
> Devices using other inputs (e.g. synaptics or evdev) will continue to
> work fine (with or without the above).
>

Sandalle,
Thanks for figuring this out. When I updated to xorg-server
1.5.3, X was froze up for me. Sounds like not really frozen
just no input devices available.

George

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