xorg.conf manpage lacks information

[Fred]

Binary package hint: xorg

The manpage for "xorg.conf";
$ man xorg.conf
Lacks information about some options.

Example, the "InputDevice" section lacks information about the following Options;
* Keyboard: XkbRules, XkbModel, XkbLayout
* Mouse: Device, Protocol, Emulate3Buttons, ZAxisMapping, ButtonMapping

The "Videoadaptor" section is empty. It only says "Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ...".

[Eldmannen+freedesktop (eldmannen+freedesktop)]

'man mousedrv' says that the "Device" option for InputDevice is mandatory.
I commented it out and Xorg and my mouse still works.

It say Emulate3Buttons is off by default.
When I comment it out in xorg.conf, then it defaults to enabled.

~$ dpkg -l "*xserver*" | grep ii
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.3+2 X server utilities
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+10ubuntu7 the X.Org X server
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.1~git20080131-1ubuntu7 Xorg X server - core server
ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.3+10ubuntu7 the X.Org X server -- input driver metapacka
ii xserver-xorg-input-elographics 1:1.1.0-3 X.Org X server -- ELOGraphics input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:1.2.0-1ubuntu2 X.Org X server -- evdev input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-kbd 1:1.2.2-3ubuntu1 X.Org X server -- keyboard input driver
ii xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.3-2 X.Org X server -- mouse input driver

Using Ubuntu 8.04 beta.

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

I have now found that the information about XkbRules, XkbModel, XkbLayout are stored in 'man kbd'
And that the information for Device, Protocol, Emulate3Buttons, ZAxisMapping, ButtonMapping are stored in 'man mousedrv'.

Perhaps, this could be more obvious, since I missed it.
But at least the information does exist. :)

Still, something needs to be done about the Videoadaptor section.

[Peter Hutterer (peter-hutterer)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> 'man mousedrv' says that the "Device" option for InputDevice is mandatory.
> I commented it out and Xorg and my mouse still works.

Thanks, fixed and pushed as 82231d2309a54ecf7de3f29809416b2ea5f2d3cd

> It say Emulate3Buttons is off by default.
> When I comment it out in xorg.conf, then it defaults to enabled.

This was fixed upstream with 78272e117ceea12b8863f31688da66b20e160311

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15425

It says "Thanks, fixed and pushed as 82231d2309a54ecf7de3f29809416b2ea5f2d3cd" and "This was fixed upstream with 78272e117ceea12b8863f31688da66b20e160311"

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Yep, fixed in Intrepid.