On Monday 29 December 2008 16:02:45 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:55 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday 29 December 2008 15:32:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Dale wrote: > >> > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> >> Dale wrote: > >> >>> [...] > >> >>> I would assume I don't have evdev here. Since I asked equery for > >> >>> anything with dev in it, it should have listed it if it was > >> >>> installed. That is why I ask if there was something new. I can't > >> >>> say that I have > >> >>> ever heard of evdev before. > >> >> > >> >> For X, it's the x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev package. The driver > >> >> uses the in-kernel "event interface" driver for keyboard and mouse. > >> >> It's in "Device Drivers->Input device support->Event interface". You > >> >> need to configure it in xorg.conf to use it. > >> >> > >> >> So in other words, you don't have it ;) > >> > > >> > Is this required for the new kernels? If not, why does it work in the > >> > old ones and not the new ones? Why is something not informing us it > >> > is needed would be a good question as well. I'll make sure the new > >> > kernel has that tho when I test it. Just in case. > >> > >> It's not needed nor required. It's just a different driver. I'm not > >> sure, but I think the point of this driver is for X to support > >> autodetected input devices. If you remove all sections for keyboard and > >> mouse from your x.org conf, then it will autodetect them and use evdev. > >> This must be part of the plan to get rid of xorg.conf entirely; if you > >> delete xorg.conf, X should autodetect everything (it's not there yet I > >> guess, but comes close.) > > > > For a single user conventional workstation using X.org 1.5, the X devs > > want you to install hal and evdev, then remove xorg.conf entirely and let > > X autodetect the lot. > > > > Personally, I can't wait for the day when xorg.conf on single-users > > workstations can be trashed *entirely* > > > > -- > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > First I've heard of this. Interesting. Is there something I should be > reading to keep up with this sort of change?
Google, I suppose :-) I first read it on an Ubuntu dev's blog, then picked up more info from freedesktop.org when looking for debugging info for an nVidia card. i.e. I stumbled on it purely by chance. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
