I recently noticed a comment on lkml apparently casting aspersions on a distro (OpenSuse) which didn't use evdev. I've been building evdev for a long while, but not doing anything to enable it. My curiosity was raised enough to google, and make the necessary changes to xorg.conf (events are listed in /proc/bus/input/devices, I haven't attempted to automate the parsing of this, on the two machines I've looked at the event numbers for the keyboard and mouse are consistent for all evdev-enabled kernels on that machine, both x86 and x86_64).
I've had problems with spurious mouse events for a couple of years now - used to be that they only happened after I switched machines on my KVM switch, but nowadays they happen all the time. So, I was hoping that changing to evdev might improve things. Ran with evdev for a little while last week on x86_64 (at that time I hadn't enabled evdev in x86 kernels). Didn't seem either better or worse. But if it's the preferred way to do things... So, tonight I'm finally back to sorting out my new desktop. I'm still on gcc-4.3 for this, preoblems with gcc-4.4 can wait for the next build. Xorg is pretty much the way I've built it for a few months - tried a few libs which looked as if they were "stable" updates, but had to revert one, and newer xcb-util, because I didn't have new enough versions of everything. On to my initial desktop - current fluxbox, terms provided by urxvt. After a little while I discovered that I didn't have working down-arrow and page-down (in vim, less, mutt via ssh) which made things "interesting". Once I'd got firefox built I discovered that I didn't have those two keys when I was replying to a mail in googlemail. Came out of X, back in using icewm (I only build fluxbox because it means I can use xorg a bit sooner). Now the keys all work fine. So, was this a fluxbox problem, or an evdev problem ? I'm not planning to waste time on this, but other anecdotal comments are welcome. I also note that the spurious mouse events are no better - opened 2 terms, closed one, was then unable to control the mouse for a few seconds. NB if I've got two windows open, the "quick fix" is to Alt-Tab between them, although sometimes that's not possible if I've got a barrage of firefox alerts on the screen. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
