system-* tools' ui independence

Matej Cepl mcepl at redhat.com
Fri Feb 29 14:18:31 UTC 2008


On 2008-02-28, 17:00 GMT, Jerry James wrote:
> The KVM switch in my server room seems to block autodetection 
> of the mouse and monitor (the keyboard is a vanilla PC105; 
> I bet if it was some multimedia keyboard that it would also be 
> configured incorrectly).  I have to explicitly configure the 
> mouse and monitor in xorg.conf.  I consider that an unfortunate 
> property of my hardware, rather than a software bug.  Should 
> I think otherwise?

That's weird -- we should at least default to something sane 
(like vanilla PC105 keyboard). Yes, please, file a bug with 
/var/log/Xorg.0.log and with /etc/X11/xorg.conf you need to use.

Matěj




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