Xorg: How to load 'kbd' driver using hal?

[Mario Limonciello]

Hi Henning:

I think actually for 9.04 an exclusive lock is no longer grabbed by the
evdev driver.  Your problem may just be a moot point.  Perhaps you can
try a recent 9.04 alpha image and see.

Regards

Henning Moll wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Ubuntu 8.10 which usese Hal by default to load the 'evdev' 
> module (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so). For my laptop i have 
> to use an additional driver 'omnibook' 
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/omnibook) to get certain special keys 
> working. Unfortunately, this driver requires grabbing the keyboard 
> driver too, but evdev is exclusively grabbing it, so these two drivers 
> don't work together. There may be a (probably better) solution to fix 
> the omnibook driver for coexistence with evdev, but i am not able to do 
> this.
> My solution so far is, to switch back to 'kbd' driver. I am currently 
> doing this by adding the according keyboard section to xorg.conf and 
> specifying 'Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"' in the server layout 
> section. This works, but has the drawback that hal isn't used for Xorg 
> at all anymore.
>
> Is it possible to configure 'kbd' via an .fdi file exactly the same way?
>
> All my effords in this direction end up with a broken keyboard. I think 
> i know the reason, but i am not able to fix it. The reason:
>
> When configuring via xorg.xonf, the 'kbd' driver is initialized without 
> information about a device file. The relevant code in the kbd driver is
>
>     s = xf86SetStrOption(pInfo->options, "Device", NULL);
>     if (s == NULL) {
>        pInfo->fd = xf86Info.consoleFd;
>        pKbd->isConsole = TRUE;
>     } else {
>        pInfo->fd = open(s, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK | O_EXCL);
>
> So, if no Option "Device" is defined, the driver is using 
> xf86Info.consoleFd. Unfortunately, if i load the driver via hal, then 
> this option is always defined causing the above code to enter the else 
> body. The result is always a useless keyboard.
>
> I think xf86Info.consoleFd is pointing to a file descripter of /dev/tty7 
> (this is reported in Xorg.0.log), but it is not possible to 
>
> <merge key="input.x11_options.Device" type="string">/dev/tty7</merge>
>
> Is it possible to tell Xorg to use kbd without device informatio using a 
> fdi?
>
> Is it possible to xorg.conf (keybord section) together with HAL?
>
> So is there a way to configure this with fdi?
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Mario Limonciello
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