since commit c264826da96ad1859dd112b17eb8aa9e5278478f, the configured mouse and keyboard from xorg.conf are removed when AutoAddDevices is enabled. This is a good thing, but it has one downside: when the evdev driver is not installed, automatically added devices will not get added to the server because the driver doesn't exist. This, combined with the removed, working, devices configured from xorg.conf using the kbd and mouse drivers, result in an X server without mouse and keyboard. Users have to use SSH or serial terminal to get back in their system.
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:56:44AM -0800, bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org wrote: > since commit c264826da96ad1859dd112b17eb8aa9e5278478f, the configured mouse and > keyboard from xorg.conf are removed when AutoAddDevices is enabled. This is a > good thing, but it has one downside: when the evdev driver is not installed, > automatically added devices will not get added to the server because the driver > doesn't exist. This, combined with the removed, working, devices configured > from xorg.conf using the kbd and mouse drivers, result in an X server without > mouse and keyboard. Users have to use SSH or serial terminal to get back in > their system. we don't know that this is an issue until the server has already started up and the list of devices requires the evdev driver to load. By then it's too late to load mouse/kbd though. And you don't necessarily need evdev as there are other drivers (synaptics, wacom, joystick) that support hotplugging. The fix to that is to provide an xorg.conf with AutoEnableDevices off and a mouse and kbd section.
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