Debian Bug report logs - #646686
xserver-xephyr: Xephyr doesn't work with evdev input drivers

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Junior Polegato <linux@juniorpolegato.com.br>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: xserver-xephyr: Xephyr doesn't work with evdev input drivers

Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 06:11:23 -0200

Package: xserver-xephyr
Version: 2:1.11.1.901-2
Severity: normal


Dear Maintainer,

I use Xephyr and GDM2 to make multi seat terminal with one machine.

If I use Xephyr with evdev driver, I get "Couldn't find pointer driver
evdev".

So, I compiled the package xorg-xserver adding on debian/rules
"--enable-kdrive-evdev" and then Xephyr works perfectly.

Is it possible add this option for users who work with multi seat
terminal? Cause I think this isn't bad for other users and I don't have
to compile for each new version.

Thanks,

Junior Polegato



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (65, 'stable'), (60, 'unstable'), (55, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xserver-xephyr depends on:
ii  libaudit0                 1.7.18-1      
ii  libc6                     2.13-21       
ii  libdrm2                   2.4.26-1      
ii  libgcrypt11               1.5.0-3       
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  7.11-6        
ii  libpixman-1-0             0.22.2-1      
ii  libselinux1               2.1.0-1       
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.4.4-2     
ii  libxau6                   1:1.0.6-3     
ii  libxdmcp6                 1:1.1.0-3     
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.0-3     
ii  libxfont1                 1:1.4.4-1     
ii  libxv1                    2:1.0.6-2     
ii  xserver-common            2:1.11.1.901-2

Versions of packages xserver-xephyr recommends:
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri  7.11-6

xserver-xephyr suggests no packages.

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Message #12 received at 646686@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

To: xorg-devel@lists.x.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org

Cc: debian-68k@lists.debian.org, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>, 640699@bugs.debian.org, 646686@bugs.debian.org

Subject: [PATCH 01/18] debian/rules: Enable kdrive-mouse and kdrive-evdev on Linux

Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:20:34 +0100

It seems the auto-detection for Linux in configure doesn't work anymore.
As a consequence, none of the KDrive input drivers are enabled, and mouse
and keyboard don't work.  build-main/include/kdrive-config.h:

/* #undef KDRIVE_KBD */
/* #undef KDRIVE_MOUSE */
/* #undef KDRIVE_EVDEV */

Explicitly enable kdrive-mouse and kdrive-evdev to fix this.

Notes:
  - I did not enable kdrive-kbd, as it's completely broken.
    Since it no longer fills in KdKeyboardInfo.minScanCode and
    KdKeyboardInfo.maxScanCode, any keypress causes messages like:

    driver Linux console keyboard wanted to post scancode x outside of [0, 0]!

  - kdrive-mouse still works (e.g. "-mouse ps2", or "-mouse mouse" for
    protocol probing, which takes some time), but the recommended way
    these days is kbd-evdev, using the following (ugly) command line
    parameters:

	-keybd evdev,,device=/dev/input/event0
	-mouse evdev,,device=/dev/input/event1

  - This may be the reason behind
    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640699
    ("keyboard problem with xserver xfbdev: why does it not work?")
  - See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646686
    ("xserver-xephyr: Xephyr doesn't work with evdev input drivers")

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: 640699@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 646686@bugs.debian.org
---
 debian/rules |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 3011a78..59f0c4c 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ endif
 
 ifeq ($(DEB_HOST_ARCH_OS), linux)
 	build_xfbdev = --enable-xfbdev
+	build_xfbdev += --enable-kdrive-mouse --enable-kdrive-evdev
 	selinux = --enable-xselinux
 else
 	build_xfbdev = --disable-xfbdev
-- 
1.7.0.4

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