evdev and xorg conflict [Solved]

[vorgas]

The Problem
For some reason xorg is blocking the output of all raw evdev events (or, that's what I think is happening) to my keyboard and mouse. When I run evtest on my mouse device, it sees the mouse, displays the button list, but activity does not generate output. I had gentoo in the past, and this program worked, so I know it's possible. I got a new computer and installed 2008.0 and now it's not working.

Why I Think It's X

• Make sure evdev was enabled in the kernel. 'zcat /proc/config.gz | grep EVDEV' returns 'CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y'. Check.
• Try it a console, to make sure the evdev process is working. './evtest /dev/input/event0' shows the mouse, displays the button list, and activity generates hordes of output. Check.
• Try running evtest on my joystick in X. I get evdev output on all activity. Check.
• Try running evtest on my mouse/keybord in KDE, Gnome, and whatever the basic desktop is when root runs 'startx'. It fails on all 3, as above.

My Setup

• Gentoo 2008.0
• gentoo-sources-2.6.25-r6
• xorg-server-1.4.2. The INPUT_DEVICES includes evdev.
• xf86-input-evdev-2.0.1

Note that the mouse is working, it's just not seeing all the events. Specifically, it's not allowing evdev events through. And before you tell me to use program xyz instead of evdev, I already have and it can't handle all the buttons on my mouse, keyboard, or joysticks. But there is a program I can use that works great for all 3, provided I can get to the evdev events.

/etc/X11/xorg.conf
In the interests of brevity, I have included only the info relevant to the mouse/keyboard. For the various revisions, whenever I commented out something, I put the revision number after the #, so I could regress as needed. If you need something else, let me know.

Code: Select all

Section "Module"
   ...
   Load "evdev"
   ...
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Keyboard0"
   # (0) Driver "kbd"
   Driver "evdev"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
  Identifier "Mouse0"
  # (0) Driver "mouse"
  Driver "evdev"
  # (1) Option "Protocol" "auto"
  # (1) ZAxisMapping "4 5 6 7"
  # (2) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  # (3) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
  # (4) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
  Option "evBits" "+1-2"
  Option "keyBits" "~272-287"
  Option "relBits" "~0-2 ~6 ~8"
  Opiton "Pass" "3"
EndSection

Thank you for your ideas.

[vorgas]

After banging around on lots of forums looking for lots of things, it was a throwaway comment in an lirc forum that did the trick.

In the "ServerLayout" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf I added: Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"

Of course, this made my keyboard stop working, so I had to set that as follows:
Driver "evdev"
Device "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Logitech_USB_Multimedia_Keyboard-event-kbd"

In the mouse section I had to make sure the Device was pointed to a non-evdev entry, like /dev/input/mouse0 or /dev/input/mice. Then I could use the evdev node for what I wanted. Yahoo!