So it has been a bit over 3 years since my last post here… And oddly enough, it is quite similar to my previous post.
Xorg 1.8 should be coming soonishly – using the scm version gives the awesomeness that is Xorg with hotplugging, without hal (hooray!)
In order for it to work though, you do need a very minimal xorg.conf :
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "default"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Alternately, with git, xorg-server supports /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d – I’ve got that little snippet in a file in there called 90-input-default.conf
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Steev\'s Gentoo Stuff 
Sorry I’m asking – which packages should I fetch from git to have finally only one package depending on hal?
It is important for me as apparently dbus or hal crashes freezing desktop.
Hmm? I’m not sure, which version of dbus are you running? I know that 1.2.22 (which I added to portage recently) does have 1 crasher, but it doesn’t seem to be extremely common (mostly on OpenSolaris) – Personally, I built just libdrm, mesa and xorg-server from git – which doesn’t require hal or dbus.
Various. It happens after resume from hibernation and all I have is logs. It may be something else.
Perhaps we should make xorg-server install this file when built with udev support?
Dude, that’s the plan. We just need to actually take care of it. 🙂
@Steev, thanks for trying it out and posting this.
Cheers
you waited til xorg 1.8 for that???? oO
I’ve used evdev like since ever, and X without dbus or hal.
I don’t know what you hurraying about.
There is more to hotplugging than “using evdev” – I’m sorry that you can’t see that.
Steev,
You dont need Section “InputClass” section mate. All you need to do, is to add proper rules to /etc/udev/rules.d
When X starts you’ll have:
[100996.134] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
…
[100996.437] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event1)
[100996.437] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass “evdev-catchall”
[100996.437] (II) LoadModule: “evdev”
[100996.437] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so
[100996.437] (II) Module evdev: vendor=”X.Org Foundation”
[100996.437] compiled for 1.8.0, module version = 2.3.2
[100996.437] Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[100996.437] ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 9.0
[100996.437] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[100996.437] (**) Power Button: Device: “/dev/input/event1”
[100996.442] (II) Power Button: Found keys
[100996.442] (II) Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[100996.442] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device “Power Button” (type: KEYBOARD)
[100996.442] (**) Option “xkb_rules” “evdev”
[100996.442] (**) Option “xkb_model” “evdev”
[100996.442] (**) Option “xkb_layout” “gb”
[100996.485] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Power Button (/dev/input/event0)
[100996.485] (**) Power Button: Applying InputClass “evdev-catchall”
[100996.485] (**) Power Button: always reports core events
[100996.485] (**) Power Button: Device: “/dev/input/event0”
[100996.495] (II) Power Button: Found keys
[100996.495] (II) Power Button: Configuring as keyboard
[100996.495] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device “Power Button” (type: KEYBOARD)
[100996.495] (**) Option “xkb_rules” “evdev”
[100996.495] (**) Option “xkb_model” “evdev”
[100996.495] (**) Option “xkb_layout” “gb”
[100996.497] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse (/dev/input/event2)
[100996.497] (**) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Applying InputClass “evdev-catchall”
[100996.497] (**) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: always reports core events
[100996.497] (**) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Device: “/dev/input/event2”
[100996.507] (II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Found 12 mouse buttons
[100996.507] (II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
[100996.507] (II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Found relative axes
[100996.507] (II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
[100996.507] (II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: Configuring as mouse
[100996.507] (**) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
[100996.507] (**) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
[100996.507] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device “Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse” (type: MOUSE)
[100996.507] (II) Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: initialized for relative axes.
[100996.507] (II) config/udev: Adding input device Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse (/dev/input/mouse0)
In my case this was very important part of udev rule:
ENV{ID_INPUT_KEY}==”?*”, ENV{xkblayout}=”gb”
My xorg.conf looks like:
Section “Device”
Identifier “radeon0”
Driver “ati”
VendorName “ATI Technologies Inc”
BoardName “FireGL v3400”
BusID “PCI:1:0:0”
Option “Monitor-DVI-0” “monitor0”
Option “Monitor-DVI-1” “monitor1”
Option “AccelMethod” “EXA”
Option “AccelDFS” “on”
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “monitor0”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1920x1200_60.00”
EndSection
Section “Monitor”
Identifier “monitor1”
Option “DPMS”
Option “PreferredMode” “1920x1200_60.00”
Option “Rightof” “monitor0”
EndSection
Section “Screen”
Identifier “screen0”
Device “radeon0”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Virtual 3840 1200
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section “ServerLayout”
Identifier “Default Layout”
Screen “screen0”
EndSection
Section “ServerFlags”
Option “RandR” “true”
EndSection