bugs

[Ryan Gallagher]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 09:43, DEMAINE Benoit-Pierre wrote:
> Hy;
> 
> I have a laptop AMD1.4 with Debian SID; I use two kernels 2.4.25 and
> 2.6.8; both usually work fine, but have the same bugs about what I ll
> explain. I installed X.org 6.8.0 today;
> 
> -registry- i installed registry a long time ago; regedit work fine for
> both users and root; I used xorgcfg to generate /etc/X11/xorg.conf, but no
> entry were added to registry; how do I do that ?
> 
> -synaptics mouse- I used to use both my touchpad and my USB mouses under
> xfree, and when I switched to x.org I think it used to work fine ... but
> when I installed the synaptics driver, xorg used only the mouse which is
> called "mouse0"; note that I did not try the synaptics with xfree. What is
> the way to use both USB and synaptics touchpad with xorg ? is it a
> synaptics or an xorg bug ? what shall xorg.conf look like to support to
> mouses ?
> 
> here is a part of it:
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Mouse1"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Protocol"      "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Mouse0"
>         Driver          "synaptics"
>         Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
> [..]
>         Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>         Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
>         Option          "SendCoreEvents"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5 6 7"
>         Option "Repeater" "/dev/ps2mouse"
> EndSection
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier      "Default Layout"
>         Screen  0       "Screen0"       0 0
>         InputDevice     "Keyboard0"
>         InputDevice     "Mouse0"        "AlwaysCore"
>         InputDevice     "Mouse1"        "CorePointer"
> EndSection
> 
> It looks to me that xorg never take care of the serverlayout part.
> 
> -DPMS- with xfree, I had a small script: '/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force
> off' I used to switch off the screen, but with xorg, it only turn it
> black, and keep the light on; is that an other xorg bug or did I
> misconfigured sth wrong ?
> 
> Section "Monitor"
> [..]
>         Option          "DPMS"
> EndSection

I find the same thing to be true.  I'm unable to shut off the
backlight.  Xorg 6.8, radeon driver.  I'm pretty sure this is a new bug.

-ry