Additional NULL (??) layout group with evdev+hal

[Thomas Fritzsche]

Hello Peter,

output of "X -version":
......
X.Org X Server 1.5.2
Release Date: 10 October 2008
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-19-server i686 Ubuntu
Current Operating System: Linux sakura 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Tue Nov
4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 24 October 2008  08:00:16AM
.....

I double checked the source package contains the patches (as expected).
There are some other patches applied by Ubuntu, relevant for keyboard
seems to be only this one:
...........
>From 638cab7e1dc3711f7fb04155bcdabf4b8895cc5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:08:36 +0930
Subject: [PATCH] xfree86: force SwitchCoreKeyboard for evdev devices (updated).

If an evdev keyboard device is added through the HAL mechanism, force a
SwitchCoreKeyboard to load the evdev map into the VCK. This way, by the time a
client starts the evdev keymap is already there, leading to less pain lateron.
...........

I attached another "xkbcomp -xkb :0 -" output. This run is just a pure
X session with xterm but nothing else.

There is one warning that comes up when executing "xkbcomp -xkb :0 -":
...
Warning:          Could not load keyboard geometry for :0
                  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
                  Resulting keymap file will not describe geometry
...
(as it's on stderr it didn't show in the files attached before)
This warning comes ONLY when I have this strange 3rd layout group.
After calling manually setxkbmap it doesn't show this warning any more.

Thanks for your help!
Cheers,
Thomas

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Peter Hutterer
<peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:11:29AM +0900, Thomas Fritzsche wrote:
>> Hello Peter,
>> That's odd....I have installed latest Ubuntu package for xorg-server
>> and this is 1.5.2.
>> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/x/xorg-server/xorg-server_1.5.2-2ubuntu3/changelog
>
> 2:1.5.1-1ubuntu3 should have the patch and unless it disappeared since, it
> should still be in there.
>
>> Is there any more information I can provide you except of the earlier
>> attached output from "xkbcomp -xkb :0 -" ?
>
> Please try to find the simplest reproduceable test-case. Ideally, this would
> be a plain X server with nothing but xterm (or even just the X server itself).
>
> Other than that, it's pretty much down to looking at the code.
>
> Cheers,
>  Peter
>
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