evdev broken

Bernd Schubert bernd.schubert at fastmail.fm
Mon Mar 16 13:25:42 PDT 2009


Hello,

yesterday I upgraded my Debian Sid system a bit and to fulfill the 
dependencies also a more recent xserver-xorg-input-evdev package was 
installed.  This causes some problems:

1) If I don't configure anything about keyboard and mouse in xorg.conf, I 
can't login anymore, since each keystroke will print the the character 
trice.

2) If I set the kbd driver as below in my xorg.conf, there are still issues 
left. E.g. ctrl+c will restart X.

Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier      "keyboard"
       Driver          "kdb"
       Option          "XkbLayout"     "de"
EndSection


Present solution: Before starting X: rm -f /dev/input/event*


Version: 1:2.1.1-1
Replaces: xserver-xorg (<< 6.8.2-35)
Provides: xserver-xorg-input-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7-1), xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.5.99.901)


Any ideas?


Thanks,
Bernd







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