Keyboard error message on start-up

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:48:31PM -0600, alupu at verizon.net wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In my Xorg-7.6 log, there's always an error line,
> "Microsoft Wired Keyboard 600: failed to initialize for relative axes."
> 
> Otherwise, everything else is close to perfect.
> Actually, this is not even an annoyance.
> More like something I'd rather not have in my log, for cosmetic reasons.
> 
> I'm almost ashamed to say, we're talking about a low-end, $15
> Microsoft ANB-00001 Black 104 Normal Keys USB Wired Slim Keyboard 600
> with 104 "normal" keys.
> Obviously, not even worth a "WW", let alone an "EE".
> 
> The relevant lines in 'xorg.conf' are,
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Keyboard0"
>         Driver          "kbd"
>         Option          "Autorepeat" "250 30"
> 
> I played with Options like "IgnoreRelativeAxes" and/or "IgnoreAbsoluteAxes"
> but I haven't been able to get rid of the pesky EE line
> (BTW, evdev module version is 2.5.0, keyboard 1.5.0 and Udev 165).
> 
> Any helpful comments will be highly appreciated,

looks like this is caused when the device has scroll wheels but no other
relative axes. either way, it's a non-issue, and it would require a larger
patch than I'm currently motivated to write to fix this. just sed it out of
your log files ;)

Cheers,
  Peter