xorg upgrade and /etc/ttys regression

[Robert Noland]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 11:06 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Thursday 29 January 2009 05:23:01 am Robert Noland wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 10:55 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > > Just to be clear ...  Am I understanding things right that
> > > the new X server requires hald and dbus running?  It won't
> > > work anymore without them?
> > >
> > > (That would be a good reason for me not to update.)
> >
> > It will work without it.
> >
> > you need to specify Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" in the ServerLayout
> > section of your xorg.conf.
> 
> It actually goes in the ServerFlags section. 

It is valid in both.  Most people have a ServerLayout section, but many
do not have a ServerFlags section.

Options  specified in this section (with the exception of the "Default
ServerLayout" Option) may be overridden by  Options  specified  in  the
active ServerLayout section. 

robert.

> I have a clean 7.1-p2 machine. It 
> was built a few days ago and 7.1-release was the first OS on the HD. The 
> release has only 7.3 and that was installed. It ran without an xorg.conf 
> file. When I upgraded to 7.4, X and KDE quit working. I could <alt>f1 or 
> <alt>f2 but the rest of the keyboard was mostly dead along with the mouse. 
> For example, I couldn't <ctrl><alt><backspace> to kill X but I could <alt>f2 
> and do a "shutdown now". I ran xorgconfig. It wouldn't work out of the box 
> because xorgconfig added
> 
> # Identifier and driver
> 
>     Identifier  "Mouse1"
>     Driver      "mouse"
>     Option "Protocol"    "Auto" # Auto detect
>     Option "Device"      "/dev/sysmouse"
> 
> When I added your AutoAddDevices line to my xorg.conf in the ServerFlags 
> section, X and KDE started running. I shifts the screen a little bit to the 
> left compared to my 6-stable machine, which is running 7.3 and a Windows XP 
> Pro system that all share a kvm switch.
> 
> After I made this machine work, I upgraded two others and they all had the 
> same problem and solution.
> 
> Kent
> 
> >
> > You can also disable the HAL option when building the server, but you
> > still need the above I believe.  I think it has been fixed in git so
> > that if HAL is not configured that the defaults revert to the old
> > behavior.
> >
> > robert.
> >
> > > Best regards
> > >    Oliver
> 
> 
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