On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 18:21 +0000, Andrew Benton wrote: > Do you need to use the evdev driver? I don't know what it does, so I > didn't build it. I just built three input drivers, xf86-input-keyboard, > xf86-input-mouse and xf86-input-void. I'm not sure that last one's > needed so I'll try without it next time.
No, I don't need evdev, but I saw it suggested elsewhere as a solution for the scrollwheel problem I'm having with the standard mouse driver. And it does solve that problem, but replaces it with a different one - having the scrollwheel work isn't very helpful if the desktop crashes on login. As for what it does, it's a different and more generic kernel interface for input devices, using /dev/input/event* instead of /dev/input/mouse*. Don't know much about it, but I understand it's preferred for some of the more complicated devices, e.g mice with a dozen or so buttons. Some of the pages I've seen suggest it might be *the* standard interface in future, although I'm not sure if that was official intent or just someone's opinion. Simon.
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