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Frank Peters posted on Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:48:38 -0500 as excerpted: |
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> But if the legacy keyboard and mouse drivers have been made obsolete by |
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> evdev, then why are they still being distributed? Is it only to |
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> accommodate older systems? |
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Keep in mind that xorg is used on BSD systems and the like (Solaris...), |
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as well. I believe that's the most common use case for many of the |
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"legacy" drivers, including kbd and mouse but also including many of the |
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"exotic" graphics drivers as well -- the ones that aren't adopting RANDR, |
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KMS, etc, because they're running on non-linux kernels without the |
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required supporting infrastructure. |
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Not that there aren't corner-cases where kbd/mouse would be used in place |
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of evdev on Linux as well, but that's exactly what they are these days, |
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corner-cases. |
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Plus there's people like you who still run an old config and see little |
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reason to change it as long as it's working the way they want. But that |
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too is becoming more of a corner case, as all the various necessary |
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components have been out and reasonably stable for years now, so even the |
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slow updaters like Debian stable are standardizing on evdev now. I think |
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RHEL/CentOS 6 has it as well, tho those still on RHEL 5 may not, and I |
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think it still has a few years of support left. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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