Severe X breakage heads up

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Wednesday 07 November 2007, Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> (cc davidz, hal ml)
> 
> On 11/06/07 10:00, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> > 95% of the user-reported problems with evdev are due to the user
> > switching himself and failing to do it properly (because switching to
> > evdev requires setting an awful lot of xorg parameters to "evdev", and
> > if you forget to change one xorg won't fail cleanly but work in a
> > strange hybrid buggy PS/2+evdev input mode, and users will assume this
> > buggy mode is evdev itself).
> 

100% of complaints we got in Mandriva when xorg was compiled with HAL support
were due to the fact that X server completely ignores whatever you put in
xorg.conf and *always* did hotplugging. Sure this was rather unexpected
for users.
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