Re: Problems with Xorg

[Sergey Bugaev]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 11:41 PM Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
> Are you at the console while running this? Normally vcs is a symlink to
> /dev/vcs/1 or such.

Good point, that works from the console. Is it supposed to be
dependent on who's asking, like /dev/console in Unix? (If so, why
doesn't it like ptys?) Or does it show the currently active virtual
console? (If so, what does it matter whether I'm asking from a
console?)

Where's that even implemented? — grep vcs -r console/ returns nothing

> (WW) Hotplugging requested but the server was compiled without a config 
> backend. No input devices were configured, the server will start without any 
> input devices.
>
> I don't know where that hotplug request comes from, but that cannot work.

Thanks, that looks relevant indeed!

Amusingly enough, the first result in Google points to someone else
having the same issue with X on the Hurd:
https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-hurd@gnu.org/msg30877.html

Looking at X source code (hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c), this seems
to refer to an option named AutoAddDevices. And sure enough, I have:

sergey@sergey-hurd-box:~$ grep AutoAddDevices -r /etc/X11/
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/auto-all.conf:    Option "AutoAddDevices" "true"
sergey@sergey-hurd-box:~$ dpkg -S /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/auto-all.conf
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/auto-all.conf

What the hell? How'd that file get there? I certainly didn't write it.

Sergey