Using: Option "AutoAddDevices" "False" in serverflags in /etc/X11/xorg.conf currently breaks loading inputs. These guys used to work fine on the previous xorg version: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbOptions" "compose:rwin" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" EndSection which used to be provided by: x11-driver-input-keyboard x11-driver-input-mouse I guess we would like these guys back, if possible! Cheers.
I saw the same issue using button mapping for my mouse with x11-server-1.19.0 Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttonmapping" "1 2 3 6 7" Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "false" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" # allows the server to start up even if the mouse does not work #DontZoom # disable <Ctrl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching) Option "DontZap" "False" # disable <Ctrl><Alt><BS> (server abort) Option "DontZap" "false" Option "allowmouseopenfail" EndSection X wpuld not even start From Xorg.0.log: [ 76.424] (II) LoadModule: "kbd" [ 76.425] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module kbd [ 76.425] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd" [ 76.425] (II) Unloading kbd [ 76.425] (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0) [ 76.425] (II) LoadModule: "mouse" [ 76.425] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mouse [ 76.425] (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" [ 76.425] (II) Unloading mouse [ 76.425] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0) [ 76.425] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux overlay mode (V4L2) [ 76.425] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 375.20 Tue Nov 15 16:15:23 PST 2016 [ 76.425] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs [ 76.426] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for v4l [ 76.426] (II) v4l: Initiating device probe [ 76.426] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for v4l [ 76.426] (II) v4l: Initiating device probe [ 76.426] (EE) No devices detected. [ 76.426] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 76.426] (EE) no screens found(EE) [ 76.424] (II) LoadModule: "kbd" [ 76.425] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module kbd [ 76.425] (II) UnloadModule: "kbd" [ 76.425] (II) Unloading kbd [ 76.425] (EE) Failed to load module "kbd" (module does not exist, 0) [ 76.425] (II) LoadModule: "mouse" [ 76.425] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module mouse [ 76.425] (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" [ 76.425] (II) Unloading mouse [ 76.425] (EE) Failed to load module "mouse" (module does not exist, 0) [ 76.425] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux overlay mode (V4L2) [ 76.425] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 375.20 Tue Nov 15 16:15:23 PST 2016 [ 76.425] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs [ 76.426] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for v4l [ 76.426] (II) v4l: Initiating device probe [ 76.426] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for v4l [ 76.426] (II) v4l: Initiating device probe [ 76.426] (EE) No devices detected. [ 76.426] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 76.426] (EE) no screens found(EE) In my case I was able to work-around this issue by removing AutoAddDevices and AllowEmptyInput from xorg.conf and X would start. That still was no help with button mapping but those I could set to my liking with xinput.
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CC: (none) => marja11Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
keyboard & mouse drivers were long ago obsoleted by the evdev driver which is now itself being obsoleted by the libinput drivers. So, while I did fix mouse+kbd drivers for xserver 1.19 in SVN, I've made evdev obsoletes keyboard+mouse as we don't need 3 sets of drivers, each one being obsoleted by the next one Please adjust your config to use evdev or better libinput You can just remove the keyboard & mouse section of your config. XFdrake don't generate those for quite some time (eg: we don't write keyboard section since 2009...)
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WONTFIX
Worth a word in the release notes. Adding FOR_RELEASENOTES6, to be replaced with IN_RELEASENOTES6 once written there. An example of a newer configuration would be ideal.
Keywords: (none) => FOR_RELEASENOTES6
Done yesterday.
Keywords: FOR_RELEASENOTES6 => IN_RELEASENOTES6
About an example of a newer configuration: there's nothing new, eg we don't generate a a keyboard section since 2009 !!!! Aka prior to any Mageia release....
(In reply to Thierry Vignaud from comment #5) > About an example of a newer configuration: > there's nothing new, eg we don't generate a a keyboard section since 2009 > !!!! > Aka prior to any Mageia release.... I probably expressed myself badly. I don't know much about XOrg configuration so was wondering if some of the things that could be done in the past to configure keyboard and mouse there could now be done in a different way in another configuration file. And if it's all magically autodetected, well, let's just mention it in the release notes for those like me who don't know :)
Thanks for the answer Thierry. I'll investigate how to use the new drivers. The point being, yes I and Charges at least were still using the keyboard and mouse sections to set custom settings. Myself was quite trivial for getting the "accents" the way I like, but Charles had some button mappings. So, an example along these lines would be nice indeed. I'll try to provide it. If 2 users of Cauldron hit the question, I guess, a few percent of all users will also have the same pb once mga6 release. Cheers.
Well, as for using those drivers, those are automatically loaded by X server if installed (which we do). So you've nothing to do besides removing those sections. Now, if you need something specific, note that keyboardrake writes /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf You can alter it if you need (but beware that if you rerun keyboarddrake, you might loose your changes) But I don't think you need anything, see eg: the example config file I'm attaching
Created attachment 8712 [details] /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/00-keyboard.conf written by keyboarddrake As you can see, keyboarddrake is written exactly what you want, without forcing a driver.
Just FYI, evdev & libinput are automatically loaded if installed by: /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf
Wow, great! Thanks for the info!
(In reply to Chris Denice from comment #7) > Thanks for the answer Thierry. > > I'll investigate how to use the new drivers. The point being, yes I and > Charges at least were still using the keyboard and mouse sections to set > custom settings. > Myself was quite trivial for getting the "accents" the way I like, but > Charles had some button mappings. > > So, an example along these lines would be nice indeed. I'll try to provide > it. > If 2 users of Cauldron hit the question, I guess, a few percent of all users > will also have the same pb once mga6 release. Here's what I ended up using to get the button mapping for my mouse the way I wanted. $ xinput list (list all input devices) $ xinput get-button-map <device> (list button as currently mapped) $ xinput set-button-map <device> (set desired mapping) for me that was $ xinput set-button-map 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 1 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20