On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:51:34AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 07:17:52PM +0100, Christian Beier wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:50:38 +1100 > > Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How about being able to create new SDs, a la uinput? > > > > Using uinput would undoubtly be the cleaner solution, but would limit > > the application to Linux and would need fiddling with udev rules for > > the right permissions in /dev/input/ and putting the user in the > > corresponding group. I think I'll stick to creating MDs on the fly and > > feeding them directly - which should be unproblematic if I keep exactly > > one event source per MD, as Peter outlined in his reply to my previous > > post. Or I'll implement both ways and leave the choice up to the > > user... Let's see... > > I meant being able to create virtual SDs on the fly: basically, uinput > for MPX. Using uinput would be the wrong way to go, IMO.
You could feed "void" devices to the server, even easier if config-dbus is enabled. ATM the server doesn't provide an option to create an SD through a client request and I haven't made up my mind yet if we should. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
