xorg-server 1.14 and keyboard/mouse events

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2014, Jonathan Chen wrote:

> I've just recently upgraded to xorg-server 1.14.7, and I'm
> experiencing some odd behaviour with the keyboard. Typing on the
> keyboard more often than not will result in no output until I move the
> mouse. For example, if I open an xterm, I can type command and no
> output will show until I hit the Return key or move the mouse. The
> last time this happened, it was a problem with HAL and I had to put
> "AutoAddDevices" "false" in xorg.conf. However, now that HAL has gone
> away, I'm not sure what I need to do to fix this.

Make certain there are no "AllowEmptyInput" entries in xorg.conf.