On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 12:07:27PM +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: >> > Also, on a somewhat-related note: I'm noticing that having >> > xf86-input-libinput and xf86-input-wacom installed alongside each >> > other results in some pretty annoying driver priority issues. I've got >> > 0.17.0 installed at the moment and it ends up grabbing the pad on my >> > 24HDT since udev tags it as a keyboard (probably because it has >> > KEY_PROG1 through KEY_PROG3) and since libinput's xorg.conf.d file has >> > a '90' prefix. The libinput driver later drops the device since udev >> > also tags it as a buttonset, preventing the buttons from being usable >> > under X at all (let alone usable by GNOME). If simultaneous >> > installation of the libinput and wacom drivers is supposed to work, >> > there might be some work to do... >> >> yes, we'll have to use the new-ish NoMatch bits for that. unfortunately, >> there is little way around this and I haven't gotten to it yet. I'll bump >> this up in the todo list. > > I stared at this for a bit today and our main problem is that we don't have > a release with the NoMatch* bits, so we can't ship anything in the near > future that relies on it. > > I think the only reasonable solution for now is for distributions to install > 50-wacom.conf as 91-wacom.conf and thus override any libinput assignments. > The wacom driver is more of a leaf package than libinput, so the simple > instructions for users would then be "if you want libinput to handle the > tablet, uninstall xf86-input-wacom". > > Cheers, > Peter
We need to make a new release of xf86-input-wacom pretty soon anyway -- shall I just do the rename in our repo and then leave it up to yum/apt/etc. to sort out when the release is pulled into each distro? Jason --- Now instead of four in the eights place / you’ve got three, ‘Cause you added one / (That is to say, eight) to the two, / But you can’t take seven from three, / So you look at the sixty-fours.... _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
