X server aborting at first keypress or mouse movement

[Didier Spaier]

On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:55:21 Rémi Cardona wrote:
> Le mercredi 16 septembre 2009 à 23:35 +0200, Didier Spaier a écrit :
> > <quote>
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >     Option   "AllowEmptyInput"     "false"
> >     Option   "AutoAddDevices"      "false"
> >     Option   "AutoEnableDevices"   "false"
> > EndSection
> > </quote>
>
> AutoAddDevices is enough to disable HAL support at run-time.
>
> > <quote>
> > (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
>
> It's a bug, one that has already been fixed [1] in both master and in
> newer versions from the 1.6 branch. 1.6.3.901 should work just fine.
>
> Upgrading to 1.6.3.901 is strongly advised.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Rémi
>
> [1]
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?h=server-1.6-branch&id=397
>f7c42cd775f1dbfced58bc1dfaead48e86440

Thanks Rémi.

Patrick, would you consider upgrading to 1.6.3.901 in Slackware-stable ?