[openbox] cannot get Openbox to start on Ubuntu 9.04

[Kacper Wysocki]

2009/8/9 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj at terra.es>:

> This process
> that you describe here will only work if you use AllowEmptyInput,
> any other way it will be ignored, in favour of whatever hal/evdev says.
> When hal is being used, this stuff is not configure in xorg.conf
> but in the .fdi files.

You can still use the old X input methods, which are IMHO a lot less
complicated.
Disable "AllowEmtpyInput" to see what's going wrong
(that way X won't start if it can't find keyboard/mouse):

Section "ServerLayout"
   Identifier "l"
   Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
   Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "kbd"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xorg"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc104"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier      "Generic Serial Mouse"
       Driver          "mouse"
       Option          "Device"                "/dev/ttyS0"
       Option          "Protocol"              "Microsoft"
       Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
       Option          "CorePointer"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "Device"     "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection
[... rest of xorg.conf (Device/Screen/Monitor sections) ..]
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