On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 05:50:23PM +1030, Ron wrote:
> > the current plan for the input attributes is to add a tagging system instead
> > of more custom matches. so you can set up udev to tag devices in a specific
> > way and then apply the xorg.conf snippets based on these tags.
> > so provided complicated enough rulesets you can have configuration for
> > multiple wacom devices.
>
> That'll be no worse than we have already, we already have udev rules for
> all the important cases, so setting an extra var when they match will be
> no biggie.
>
> > Until this is in place, I tend towards claiming that multiple identical
> > devices aren't supported without configuration.
>
> I can probably pass them with the jcristau patched server in Sid.
> I can definitely set things like ENV{x11_options.Type} with it, but I
> don't think he wanted that to go upstream, it was just a stopgap to
> get us through the HAL migration until the xorg.conf stuff is finalised.
>
> I don't think we can use that usefully until the xorg.conf side of it
> gets sorted out though, can we?
Yes, pretty much. As long as the server side is still moving you'd be
redoing your work. AFAICT the only two changes that will go in to the system
eventually are the tagging system and an "ignore" option to blacklist
devices. Hopefully both are done sooner than later but it may still be a few
weeks away.
Cheers,
Peter
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