From 761ae22f880bd79550ccf93d321b8a28b3755956 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hutterer Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:38:19 +1000 Subject: xfree86: tell users to disable AutoAddDevices, not AllowEmptyInput. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Technically, disabling AEI is the right suggestion. AEI off forces the server to init the built-in defaults for input devices (or pick the first one from the config file). At the same time, hotplugging is still available with AEI off. Unfortunatly, in the vast majority of cases users want to simply disable hotplugging or have a working server while the local HAL configuration is broken or missing. Disabling AEI will lead to duplicate events, triple keystrokes, etc. once the configuration works again. It's not actually required to remove AEI once hotplugging works again, though it will in many cases lead to a setup that appears broken. Asking users to disable AutoAddDevices instead means those users disable hotplugging, can then fix the HAL setup and they _must_ remove the config line again to test if hotplugging works again. Which doesn't leave them with a broken config once everything is working nice and dandy. Less bugreports, everybody wins. Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer Acked-by: Dan Nicholson Acked-by: Daniel Stone Acked-by: Rémi Cardona Acked-by: James Cloos --- hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c index 40f65bdbf..e1283f97f 100644 --- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c +++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c @@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ checkCoreInputDevices(serverLayoutPtr servlayoutp, Bool implicitLayout) #ifdef CONFIG_HAL xf86Msg(X_INFO, "The server relies on HAL to provide the list of " "input devices.\n\tIf no devices become available, " - "reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput.\n"); + "reconfigure HAL or disable AutoAddDevices.\n"); #else xf86Msg(X_INFO, "HAL is disabled and no input devices were configured.\n" "\tTry disabling AllowEmptyInput.\n"); -- cgit v1.2.3