Possible Major bug in X.org update

[Dave Airlie]

On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 10:00 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le dimanche 21 septembre 2008 à 16:45 +0930, Peter Hutterer a écrit :
> > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 08:43:15PM -0400, Mark Bidewell wrote:
> > >    I just updated my F9 system and when I restarted my box, my USB
> > >    keyboard will not work.  It works under console mode and my USB mouse
> > >    continues to work.  This is a major issue (for me at least) due to the
> > >    fact that I have no PS/2 ports and this makes Fedora unusable.
> > >    Mark Bidewell
> > 
> > The update to 1.5.0 pulled in an upstream change to input driver loading when
> > no xorg is present or incomplete ServerLayouts are given. As a result, the kbd
> > driver is not loaded automatically if no xorg.conf is present. This combines
> > with the F9 patch to disable evdev keyboards - resulting in no keyboard being
> > available.
> 
> So what? the F9 patch to disable evdev keyboards already resulted in no
> keyboards on some systems, latest upstream change only made this result
> more common.
> 
> > As said before, xorg-x11-server-1.5.0-2.fc9 reverts the upstream change and
> > kbd is now loaded automatically unless explicitly specified otherwise.
> 
> I hope that someday we'll stop working at cross-purposes with upstream
> on input (given that Fedora derivatives like OLPC already use evdev)
> 

You do know that upstream X.org has two major input contributors, and
Peter is one?

I'm not sure how can be working at cross-purposes with ourselves..

Dave.