Failed to list files in /camera

[Paul Dufresne]

This is bug #42553 :
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/42553
with a clean and simple workaround.

But I guess it had nothing to do with the /camera files.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 04:34:41 -0400, "Paul Dufresne"
<dufresnep at fastmail.fm> said:
> I have followed the said procedure (because I wished to do something for
> removing errors opening devices (168?) with strange major, minor values.
> And for me too I had a problem after Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, rebooting X.
> I have found, looking in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that:
> Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>         Undefined InputDevice "stylus" referenced by ServerLayout
>         "Default Layo$
> (EE) Problem parsing the config file
> 
> Rereading the xorg.conf file, I then realised that in:
> Section "ServerLayout"
>         Identifier      "Default Layout"
>         Screen          "Default Screen"
>         InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
>         InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
>         InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
>         InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
>         InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
> EndSection
> 
> The following lines had to be removed, now that I had remove
> corresponding InputDevice sections:
>         InputDevice     "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
>         InputDevice     "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
>         InputDevice     "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
> 
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:57:33 +0200, "Donn" <donn.ingle at gmail.com> said:
> > > All hell broke loose and I had to use the backup of xorg.conf to start X
> > > again.
> > Sorry about that. It seems strange that X would not run when those
> > entries 
> > were removed as they were not exactly vital or anything. Then again, I am 
> > from the "hack it and see" school not the "I grok the details" one.
> 

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