Bug 136674

Summary:	Sax2 steals serial ports
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer>
Component:	SaX2	Assignee:	Marcus Schaefer <ms>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	sax files

Description Roger Oberholtzer 2005-12-02 13:41:17 UTC

Sax2 adds serial ports to the X config file, even if they were not there originally. On a system that uses serial ports with something other than the standard serial driver, each time Sax2 saves the X config, root has to edit and remove non-GUI serial ports. Unless this is done, it seems that X likes to take over things like GPS receivers.
Possible solutions are to either not add serial ports that are not already there (probably a different problem), or give the user the chance to exclude serial ports. In that case, serial ports not in the file are not added until the user selects to do so.

Comment 1 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-02 13:48:22 UTC

sorry I'm pretty sure sax will not add InputDevices which doesn't
exist. If you don't mind call:

 cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.orig
 sax2 -r -a

and send me the automatically generated config and log file:

 /etc/X11/xorg.conf
 /var/log/SaX.log

Additionally you could provide the data from

 hwinfo --mouse

Comment 2 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-09 10:26:41 UTC

no information since 7 days, closed

Comment 3 Roger Oberholtzer 2005-12-09 10:55:04 UTC

Created attachment 60182 [details]
sax files

Comment 4 Roger Oberholtzer 2005-12-09 10:58:26 UTC

I did not know abikut the 7 days. Sorry.

I have run the requested command. Note that the new config file has 8 ttySx references not in the original. The problem is not so much that they do not exist as that, when they do exist, they may be things that the X server has no business messing with. I know for a fact that activity from a GPS receiver confuses the X server, and the only way to stop that is to edit the X config file and remove the lines. Normal users, however, should not be encouraged to edit this file.

Comment 5 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-09 11:42:41 UTC

Ah now I understand the problem. I tested without the InputDevices
being part of the xorg.conf and it works as expected. I think the
handling has changed here and I will remove the devices now.

Comment 6 Marcus Schaefer 2005-12-09 11:43:45 UTC

fixed