Re: [OxLUG] Weird mouse/keyboard behaviour

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 09:38:58AM +0100, Jim Hague wrote:
> Just in case this hits anyone else....
>
>
> Finally tracked it down today. My /etc/X11/xorg.conf had the traditional
> entries for mouse and keyboard. A recent X11 update introduced HAL discovered
> mouse and keyboard as well. Removing the xorg.conf static entries has restored
> normality, much to my relief.

Actually, HAL is old hat :-) udev was used next, and now there is a
new "InputClass" syntax for xorg.conf. That gets used for anything not
discovered automagically or nonstandard. It is worth reading the revised
man page for xorg.conf.

I use Logitech trackballs (and have a synaptics pad on this netbook) and
all of these need "InputClass" entries.
See (the last part of)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=547001

Adrian