Script to help find xorg configuration issues

[Aryeh Friedman]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:42 PM Michael Gmelin <freebsd at grem.de> wrote:

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> On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 17:19:02 +0100
> Per Hedeland <per at hedeland.org> wrote:
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> > On 2020-02-23 11:46, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> > > On 2020-02-22 15:36, Michael Gmelin wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I've been helping others configuring X11 with UDEV/evdev for quite
> > >> some time now. Since UDEV recently became the default option on
> > >> 12.1[0], I thought that having something automated (yet
> > >> non-intrusive) to help users fix their setup might be useful.
> > >>
> > >> To achieve this, I created a small/hacky script today that checks
> > >> all the usual problems I found while helping people figuring out
> > >> what's wrong with their setup.
> > >>
> > >> You can find it on github:
> > >> https://github.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check
> > >>
> > >> Direct download link:
> > >>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grembo/xorg-udev-setup-check/master/xorg-udev-setup-check.sh
> > >>
> > removed content
> > >
> > > Thank you for doing this!
> >
> > Indeed, this is a great script! Not only for all the embedded
> > knowledge, but also a very nice design IMO - it's a pleasure to run
> > it! I have no idea how anyone can get the new xorg-server with UDEV to
> > work without something like this. For me, *no* input worked when I had
> > installed the port - keyboard, mouse, touchpad, all dead. Not until
> > the very last step that the script reported, upgrading my freshly
> > pkg-installed xf86-input-libinput-0.28.2 to 0.28.2_1 from the port,
> > did the input devices start working.
> >
> > If your links to the script are stable, perhaps they can be added to
> > the pkg-message along with a bit of info? What is there now is really
> > inadequate.
> >
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> Hi Per,
>
> Thank you for your feedback, the pull request you opened on github
> (merged!), sharing your xmodmap configuration changes after switching
> to UDEV, and especially your friendly and encouraging words.
>
> In the meantime, I added a couple of features to the script, most
> notably the possibility to "collect evidence" - basically the usual
> configuration files, log files, and the output of a couple of commands
> that one would usually ask for when supporting another user
> (./xorg-udev-setup-check.sh -e). I tried to implement that in a
> way that respects the user's privacy. README.md has more details on
> this.
>
> The link location is stable, but it might make more sense to place
> it in a different location.
>

It is helpful enough that you might want to consider making it a port.