Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers
Le 13/07/2009 19:22, Robert Buchholz a écrit : We're using the x11-drivers/xf86-input-microtouch for a cash register. It works fine, but I think the machine is still on Xorg Server 1.3. I don't have the capacity to maintain this driver myself, but it seems bug #276615 has a patch, so I wonder why it needs to be abandoned. Whom exactly shall I contact upstream about the deprecation? Well, to start off, you might want to check if your hardware is now supported directly by the kernel. If that's the case, then you can use xf86-input-evdev which will make your life much easier. But TBH, I really don't know much about writing X drivers. All I can offer is to commit patches upstream and maybe make tarballs. My suggestion for now is to create a - ebuild of the microtouch driver inside the x11 overlay and make it point to the latest commit that has a chance of working: before the one that adds the AC_MSG(). If that doesn't work, you might want to get in touch with upstream X people via the xorg or xorg-devel mailing lists (resp. at fd.org and x.org). Hope that helps Rémi
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers
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# R�mi Cardona r...@gentoo.org (13 Jul 2009)
# broken and unmaintained by upstream, masked for removal in 30 days
# see bug #277521 for more info
x11-drivers/xf86-input-calcomp
x11-drivers/xf86-input-digitaledge
x11-drivers/xf86-input-dmc
x11-drivers/xf86-input-dynapro
x11-drivers/xf86-input-elo2300
x11-drivers/xf86-input-jamstudio
x11-drivers/xf86-input-magellan
x11-drivers/xf86-input-magictouch
x11-drivers/xf86-input-microtouch
x11-drivers/xf86-input-palmax
x11-drivers/xf86-input-spaceorb
x11-drivers/xf86-input-summa
x11-drivers/xf86-input-tek4957
x11-drivers/xf86-input-ur98
All of those are marked as unsupported by upstream and their git code no
longer builds (./configure was made to abort on purpose).
Why were they marked unsupported by upstream? Is there a replacement, are they
no longer needed, some other reason?
Marijn
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers
Le 13/07/2009 16:56, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) a écrit : Why were they marked unsupported by upstream? Is there a replacement, are they no longer needed, some other reason? Some are now supported by the kernel. For the rest, nobody owns the hardware anymore. (ur98 is for a head-tracker... does anyone own that?) All have in common that they've been broken (in portage) for many months and no-one noticed until Sabayon folks started doing tinderbox builds :) If someone is sincerely impacted by this, please get in touch with upstream (CC me) because most of those drivers could come back to life with very little work. They mostly need someone testing them. But as they stand now, I'm getting rid of them. Cheers, Rémi
Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: 14 X input drivers
On Monday 13 July 2009, Rémi Cardona wrote: Le 13/07/2009 16:56, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) a écrit : All have in common that they've been broken (in portage) for many months and no-one noticed until Sabayon folks started doing tinderbox builds :) We're using the x11-drivers/xf86-input-microtouch for a cash register. It works fine, but I think the machine is still on Xorg Server 1.3. I don't have the capacity to maintain this driver myself, but it seems bug #276615 has a patch, so I wonder why it needs to be abandoned. Whom exactly shall I contact upstream about the deprecation? Thanks, Robert signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
