NetBSD Problem Report #58402

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Date: Fri,  5 Jul 2024 09:28:33 +0000 (UTC)
From: alexander245@wp.pl
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Subject: Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled - no national characters. The system does not read keyboard and mouse settings from the xorg.conf file.
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>Number:         58402
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled - no national characters. The system does not read keyboard and mouse settings from the xorg.conf file.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    misc-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jul 05 09:30:00 +0000 2024
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jul 05 12:30:01 +0000 2024
>Originator:     Alexander
>Release:        10
>Organization:
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>Environment:
NetBSD  10.0_STABLE NetBSD 10.0_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Mon Jul  1 19:58:14 UTC 2024  mkrepro@mkrepro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
This issue concerns NetBSD 10. The system blocks devices using the 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' drivers set in the xorg.conf file.

As a result, messages appear in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file:

[  1488.628] (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled.
[  1488.628] (WW) Disabling Mouse0
[  1488.628] (WW) Disabling Keyboard0


Therefore, in the xorg.conf file you cannot set, for example XkbLayout to support national characters.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install NetBSD 10 and configure xorg.conf file with kbd or mouse drivers.
>Fix:
Adding to the file xorg.conf:

Section "ServerFlags"
	Option		"AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection

>Audit-Trail:
From: mlelstv@serpens.de (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/58402: Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' will be disabled - no national characters. The system does not read keyboard and mouse settings from the xorg.conf file.
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 12:29:20 -0000 (UTC)

 alexander245@wp.pl writes:

 >This issue concerns NetBSD 10. The system blocks devices using the 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' drivers set in the xorg.conf file.

 >Therefore, in the xorg.conf file you cannot set, for example XkbLayout to support national characters.


 Yes, that's how modern Xorg behaves and the Freedesktop people (Xorg upstream)
 don't consider it a bug.

 Instead you are supposed to run a desktop environment (aka GNOME) where
 you configure such things at run-time.

 Disabling Hotplug ("AutoAddDevices"), as you wrote, restores the previous
 behaviour.

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