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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting "Javier Vasquez" <jevv.cr AT gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 of November 2008 15:09:41 Javier Vasquez wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just casted xorg-server and friends, but X always gets frozen (no
> > > mouse, no keyboard response) with the error:
> > >
> > > (II)     AIGLX:  Screen 0 is not DRI capable
> > > (EE)  AIGLX:  error:  dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so failed
> > > (/usr/lib/dri/swrast_dri.so:  cannot open shared object file:  No such
> > > file or directory)
> > > (EE)  GLX:  could not load software renderer
> > > (II)     GLX:  no usable GL providers found for screen 0
> > >
> > > I have both xorg.conf modules commented out, the glx and the dri one.
> > ruskie says: update mesalib to the one from test (fixed this  
> > morning); cast -r
> > select whatever and pick swrast... or get something usable for dri... you
> > can't comment out glx/dri they get auto loaded... thanks to the  
> > brilliance of
> > X devs.
> >
> > LP
>
>
> That fixed the EE error, although I found out X was not frozen, I got
> without mouse neither keyboard.  The reason is that I needed:
>
> Section "ServerFlags"
>      Option "AllowEmptyInput" "off"
> EndSection
>
> For some reason although I don't have such flag set at all, if not
> present it's supposed "on", thus Xorg by default disables the keyboard
> and mouse.  After adding the flag unset ("off"), I got keyboard and
> mouse back....  I've read there are patches to revert this behavior,
> however just adding the flag by default to xorg.conf sounds OK as
> well.  Notice I didn't use the optional HAL, since I'm trying not to
> use it as much as possible, and that might be implied with the need
> for the flag as well....

It's broken for HAL, too. Basically anything that's using the mouse or  
kbd drivers are *disabled* if they are configured in xorg.conf, but  
supposedly work if you let HAL configure them (I did not try this).

-sandalle

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