Xorg Input Hotplugging

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Oct 16 02:52:16 PDT 2007


On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:59:35PM -0700, David Sharp wrote:
> Hi Ben. I'm glad you've had success getting input hotplug to work.
> I've had none.
> 
> Would you mind writing down the steps you took to configure X, dbus,
> hal, and anything else you think is relevant? wiki.x.org might be a
> good place for it, if you can. If not, if you email it to the list,
> someone might put it up for you.
> 
> My situation is a bit different, in that I'm trying to run the MPX
> server, and I'm trying to install it in a prefix other than /usr
> (/opt/mpx).
> 
> What I've done (configuration wise)
>  - added /opt/mpx/lib to ld.so.conf
>  - /opt/mpx/etc/X11/mpx.xorg.conf has zero input configuration

Try adding Option "AllowEmptyInput" to the ServerFlags section.

>  - I put x11-input.fdi in /etc/hal/fdi

It may not be getting scanned correctly: I think it might have to be in
/etc/hal/fdi/policy or somesuch.  Try lshal | grep x11, and making sure
that all the entries are there.

Cheers,
Daniel
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