Odd mouse issue with new xorg-server

[Marco Beishuizen]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, the wise Warren Block wrote:

> It should be possible to make that the sole entry in xorg.conf:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> 	Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
> EndSection
>
> Defaults will be used for the rest.  (I have not tried this, though.)

Removing the lines about input devices results in not starting at all (no 
screens found).

> Another option which people seem to miss is to just build xorg-server 
> with the HAL option disabled.  At least for xfce, HAL is not required 
> and provides no benefits, so why run it?

Hal is required for a lot of applications. I have a scanner which uses 
xsane to scan, and this requires hal.

Regards,
Marco

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