Gravis <ring3k <at> adaptivetime.com> writes:

>
> > * returning to manual keyboard and mouse configuration in Xorg
>
> where did it move to before?

i never removed the manual keyboard and mouse configuration
options that i had installed years back. however as xorg has
grown more features, one of them included "automatic udev
device detection", meaning that you *could* run with a
completely blank (or even missing) xorg.conf.

however, many people did not remove their old (manual) keyboard
and mouse configuration sections, so what the xorg team did was
to add an entry (which defaults to "on") "Use auto configuration".

when this flag is set, any entries which use kbd or mouse drivers
are COMPLETELY IGNORED.

unfortunately, then, if you disable udev (which i did), xorg
doesn't detect a mouse or keyboard - or in fact *ANY* input
device - AT ALL.

so, as documented in the document i wrote, you have to (a)
set a flag to tell xorg to stop using auto-device detection
and (b) return to the situation that everyone put up with
before auto-device detection support was added.

personally i see this as being no hardship at all. within hours
i have retrained my hands to sit further away from the now
completely hyper-sensitive trackpad that activates without my
consent to move the cursor to completely random positions on
screen.

if it really annoys me too much i will simply "rmmod bcm5974".
problem solved :)

in fact, why don't i do that right now.... :)

l.