Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-20 Thread Marek Zarychta
W dniu 18.02.2019 o 18:17, Pete Wright pisze: > > > On 2/18/19 8:50 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < >>> >>> I don't know. I think the fact that drm2 doesn't support anything newer >>> than 5-year-old hardware is a pretty convincing evidence that

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-20 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 11:18:07 -0800 Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 06:59:26PM +, Johannes Lundberg wrote: >> On 2/19/19 5:35 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: >>> My Dell Latitude D530 running i386 freebsd, which used the >>> i915kms.ko now locks up solid with drm-legacy-kmod. The PAE vs

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Cy Schubert
On February 19, 2019 9:35:54 AM PST, Steve Kargl wrote: >On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:17:48AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: >> On February 18, 2019 9:17:37 AM PST, Pete Wright > wrote: >> > >> > >> >On 2/18/19 8:50 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes <

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Steve Kargl
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 06:59:26PM +, Johannes Lundberg wrote: > > On 2/19/19 5:35 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:17:48AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: >>> >>> Drm2 is not required. My current laptop is 5 years old, an HD3000. The >>> previous one is 13 years old, i915.

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Johannes Lundberg
On 2/19/19 5:35 PM, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:17:48AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: >> On February 18, 2019 9:17:37 AM PST, Pete Wright wrote: >>> >>> On 2/18/19 8:50 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < > > I don't know.

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Steve Kargl
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:17:48AM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote: > On February 18, 2019 9:17:37 AM PST, Pete Wright wrote: > > > > > >On 2/18/19 8:50 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < > >>> > >>> I don't know. I think the fact that drm2 doesn't

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Cy Schubert
On February 18, 2019 9:17:37 AM PST, Pete Wright wrote: > > >On 2/18/19 8:50 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < >>> >>> I don't know. I think the fact that drm2 doesn't support anything >newer >>> than 5-year-old hardware is a pretty convincing

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 06:25:32AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > We are certainly driving users away by our operation model If you want to help take up more support duties -- especially for aging hardware -- I doubt anyone would stop you. There is plenty of work to take up; just check

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Emmanuel Vadot
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 06:25:32 -0800 (PST) "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > > On 19 Feb 2019, at 09.15, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > > > > > > Michael Gmelin (gre...@freebsd.org) wrote: > > >> > > >> > > On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Warner Losh
On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 8:17 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > On 19 Feb 2019, at 09.15, Oleksandr Tymoshenko > wrote: > > > > > > Michael Gmelin (gre...@freebsd.org) wrote: > > >> > > >> > > On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon > wrote: > > > >

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Bernd Walter
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 01:43:22PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote: > On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > >On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > >>On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: > >>>Anyone have insight into what evdev is? > >>evdev.ko is a small in-kernel library that makes

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > On 19 Feb 2019, at 09.15, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > > > > Michael Gmelin (gre...@freebsd.org) wrote: > >> > >> > On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > I think one serious problem here

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Daniel Ebdrup
> On 19 Feb 2019, at 09.15, Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > > Michael Gmelin (gre...@freebsd.org) wrote: >> >> On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: I think one serious problem here is the summary

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Johannes Lundberg
On 2/18/19 10:54 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> I think one serious problem here is the summary dismissal of things >> simply on the "5 year old" basis. > IIUC the graphics changes are being forced upon FreeBSD by external > projects

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Oleksandr Tymoshenko
Michael Gmelin (gre...@freebsd.org) wrote: > > > > On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > >> I think one serious problem here is the summary dismissal of things > >> simply on the "5 year old" basis. > > > >

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-19 Thread Johannes Lundberg
On 2/19/19 12:37 AM, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:50 AM Steve Kargl < > s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:11:14AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: >>> You do know these constant complaints about people trying to make things >>> better is

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:50 AM Steve Kargl < s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:11:14AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > You do know these constant complaints about people trying to make things > > better is demoralizing and counter productive. > > > > You do

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:50 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < > > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > > On 2/18/19

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Michael Gmelin
> On 18. Feb 2019, at 23:54, Mark Linimon wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> I think one serious problem here is the summary dismissal of things >> simply on the "5 year old" basis. > > IIUC the graphics changes are being forced upon FreeBSD by

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Mark Linimon
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 08:50:27AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > I think one serious problem here is the summary dismissal of things > simply on the "5 year old" basis. IIUC the graphics changes are being forced upon FreeBSD by external projects (mainly Linux-based) that are making huge

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
motivated me to do this: 1) my observation that many developers at conferences and online were using macOS as their primary desktop environment.  when comparing this to the OpenBSD and Linux community I felt pretty embarrassed, but it did explain the stagnant nature of our graphics subsystem. 

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Pete Wright
On 2/17/19 6:48 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: That manpage you found online is in section 4x. It probably gets installed along with the xf86-input-evdev package. yes - unfortunately that seems to be the only form of man page that exists on the linux side as well.  did a quick search through the

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread A. Wilcox
On 02/18/19 10:50, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < >> freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: >>> On 2/18/19, Vladimir

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Pete Wright
On 2/18/19 8:50 AM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < I don't know. I think the fact that drm2 doesn't support anything newer than 5-year-old hardware is a pretty convincing evidence that the old way is broken and doesn't work. But it DOES work, I am

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Johannes Lundberg
On 2/18/19 3:12 PM, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: >>> On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: > Anyone have insight into what evdev is? evdev.ko is a small in-kernel library that makes all your input

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:35:26AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 3:52 PM Steve Kargl < > s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to > > be no manual page. When I reboot a system with custom > > kernel, the

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:58:14AM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote: > On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 08:50 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:11:14AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > > > You do know these constant complaints about people trying to make > > > things > > > better is

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Ian Lepore
On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 08:50 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:11:14AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > > > You do know these constant complaints about people trying to make > > things > > better is demoralizing and counter productive. > > > > You do realize some of the emails

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:11:14AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > You do know these constant complaints about people trying to make things > better is demoralizing and counter productive. > You do realize some of the emails are from frustrated users who are trying to make FreeBSD (see for

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > > On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > > > > > > On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > > > > > >> On

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 09:32:52AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < > freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > > So to ditch our 5 years support model, kick the code out of the tree and > > make the users suffer? The support model is suppose to

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Steve Kargl
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 04:56:57PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > Sadly your execution on that seems to be missing the mark, > > telling people they have to go get a port now to get drm working > > because it could not

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 3:52 PM Steve Kargl < s...@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to > be no manual page. When I reboot a system with custom > kernel, the system is autoloading evdev.ko, uhid.ko, and > wmt.ko. I do not need nor what

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 9:12 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > > > > > On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > > > > >> On 2019-02-17

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > > > > On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > > > >> On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > >>> Anyone have insight into what evdev is? > > > >> evdev.ko is a small

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Warner Losh
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 8:33 AM Rodney W. Grimes < freebsd-...@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > > > On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > > >> On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: > > >>> Anyone have insight into what evdev is? > > >>

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Baptiste Daroussin
On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 07:12:24AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > > > On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > > >> On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: > > >>> Anyone have insight into what evdev is? > > >> evdev.ko is a small in-kernel

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > > On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > >> On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: > >>> Anyone have insight into what evdev is? > >> evdev.ko is a small in-kernel library that makes all your input events > >> like keyboard presses

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Niclas Zeising
On 2/18/19 12:06 PM, Stefan Blachmann wrote: On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: Anyone have insight into what evdev is? evdev.ko is a small in-kernel library that makes all your input events like keyboard presses libinput-compatible. And libinput

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Stefan Blachmann
On 2/18/19, Vladimir Kondratyev wrote: > On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: >> Anyone have insight into what evdev is? > evdev.ko is a small in-kernel library that makes all your input events > like keyboard presses libinput-compatible. And libinput was created by the Freedesktop Wayland

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-18 Thread Mark Millard
On 2019-Feb-17, at 18:35, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 03:04:41PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 2019-Feb-17, at 10:03, Steve Kargl >>> wrote: >>> >>> Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to >>> be no manual page. When I reboot a system

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-17 Thread O. Hartmann
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 18:35:25 -0800 (PST) "Rodney W. Grimes" wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 03:04:41PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 2019-Feb-17, at 10:03, Steve Kargl > > troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > > > Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-17 Thread Ian Lepore
On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 16:24 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 03:04:41PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: > > > > > > On 2019-Feb-17, at 10:03, Steve Kargl > troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote: > > > > Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to > > be no manual

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-17 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 03:04:41PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: > > > > > > On 2019-Feb-17, at 10:03, Steve Kargl > > wrote: > > > > Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to > > be no manual page. When I reboot a system with custom > > kernel, the system is autoloading

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-17 Thread Steve Kargl
On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 03:04:41PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote: > > > On 2019-Feb-17, at 10:03, Steve Kargl > wrote: > > Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to > be no manual page. When I reboot a system with custom > kernel, the system is autoloading evdev.ko, uhid.ko, and

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-17 Thread Vladimir Kondratyev
On 2019-02-17 21:03, Steve Kargl wrote: Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to be no manual page. When I reboot a system with custom kernel, the system is autoloading evdev.ko, uhid.ko, and wmt.ko. I do not need nor what these modules loaded. How does one prevent this

Re: What is evdev and autoloading?

2019-02-17 Thread Mark Millard
On 2019-Feb-17, at 10:03, Steve Kargl wrote: Anyone have insight into what evdev is? There appears to be no manual page. When I reboot a system with custom kernel, the system is autoloading evdev.ko, uhid.ko, and wmt.ko. I do not need nor what these modules loaded. How does one prevent