X server aborting at first keypress or mouse movement

[Didier Spaier]

On Thursday 17 September 2009 14:00:47 Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:55:21PM +0000, 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=3
> >97f7c42cd775f1dbfced58bc1dfaead48e86440
>
> doesn't this bug crash the server on startup? the one described in this
> thread seems to get past the startup until the first keypress - which
> sounds like a different issue (not that I'd know which).
>
> Cheers,
>   Peter

Anyhow I will try 1.6.3.901 and report what I get.

Cheers,
Didier