Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 + alps locks input in X

[Peter Osterlund]

James Oakley <joakley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Monday 27 September 2004 4:27 pm, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I tried both with mm4 with the already included alps patch and with
> > bk11 and bk13 with the patch manually applied. In both cases when
> > starting X with the alps driver input is completely dead in X, both
> > mouse and keyboard, including sysrq keys and num-lock/caps-lock.
> 
> I had this problem when I accidentally used the event device for my keyboard 
> instead of the touchpad. It didn't help that every alps XF86Config example 
> out there points to event1, which is my keyboard.
> 
> cat /proc/bus/input/devices to see which event device to use.

Or better yet, use the auto-dev feature, which should work if you have
a new enough X driver and kernel patch.

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