There are some computers and configurations I manage which rely on some of these drivers:
evdev: there are some netbooks which have touchscreens that only work with evdev, being detected by libinput but doing nothing. While this is a libinput limitation, removing evdev would limit the netbooks' capabilities: the touchscreen can be greatly beneficial, especially when used with programs which can be centered on this type of interactivity (ArduBlock is one example). siliconmotion: some years ago, thousands of computers were bought with PCI GPUs that use siliconmotion graphics. While some of these old computers are unusable today, the GPUs aren't and can be installed and used on new computers. These new computers have specifications good enough to allow up to 5 seats for a single computer, greatly reducing costs associated with keeping a laboratory, both by reduced initial investment and reduced power usage. I am worried: abandoning evdev would make some touchscreens stop working, as libinput does not support those properly. Abandoning siliconmotion would make certain multiseat configurations stop working, making, for example, one laboratories with 8 computers for 22 seats require buying additional 14 computers to replace what is going to stop working. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-evdev in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1772588 Title: Remove obsolete X11 drivers from the archive Status in xf86-input-mtrack package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in xf86-input-xwiimote package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-input-aiptek package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-input-elographics package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-input-evdev package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in xserver-xorg-input-keyboard package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-input-mouse package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-input-mutouch package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-input-void package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-ast package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in xserver-xorg-video-geode package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-mach64 package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-neomagic package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-r128 package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-savage package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-sisusb package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-tdfx package in Ubuntu: New Status in xserver-xorg-video-trident package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: xserver-xorg-video-all has not depended on these drivers for quite some time now, meaning that installation images didn't have them either nor installed them on the system. Now would be the time to drop them from the archive before next LTS & HWE-18.04 stack and in preparation for xserver 1.20. Some rationale in detail for future reference: input: -aiptek: no upstream release in 7 years -elographics: no upstream release in 6 years -evdev: replaced by -libinput (not entirely, see comment #1) -keyboard: replaced by -libinput -mtrack: no upstream release in 3 years, should be replaceable by -libinput by now -mouse: replaced by -libinput -mutouch: no upstream release in 7 years -void: xserver can start without an input driver these days -xwiimote: no upstream release in 5 years video: -ast: no upstream release in 3 years, no KMS support -geode: i386 only, no kernel support since moving to i586 (or i686?) -mach64: no KMS support -neomagic: no upstream release in 3 years, no KMS support -r128: no KMS support -savage: no KMS support -siliconmotion: no KMS suppport -sisusb: no KMS support -tdfx: no KMS support -trident: no KMS support Fedora dropped drivers without KMS (kernel modesetting) support five years ago: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-August/188429.html one exception to this is -openchrome, which we'll keep since it has some users and might even get KMS support before next LTS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xf86-input-mtrack/+bug/1772588/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
