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On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: |
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>> I'm confused about the xorg stuff in the WiKi. It mentions the evdev driver as |
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>> critical, but at the Notes at the bottom you say "evdev need udev to be |
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>> built". Can you clarify this? |
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> For some X11 configs (notably mine) it was necessary explicitly to |
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> configure evdev in xorg.conf. This used to work with, e.g., Gnome2. At |
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> a later stage, evdev suddenly required the udev USE flag to build. :-( |
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> This was taken account of in part of the web page, but not in the xorg |
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> description (which is now wrong). |
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I feared so. I read somewhere this is because xorg now asks udev about the |
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availability of evdev (writing from memory, can't find the reference). It |
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seems to me an artifice to force usage of udev. Are these people all in league |
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with each other? |
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> The change to evdev prompted me to stop using an mdev system, since I |
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> anticipated not having enough time to keep it working. (New job, and |
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> such like). The way certain developers are trying to force the world and |
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> his dog to use a rigid Red Hat specified configuration, I might be |
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> changing my time priorities. |
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Is it possible at all to drop udev and still use xorg? Are the old (i.e., |
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pre-evdev) drivers still usable? Even if they are, I bet all future |
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developments will go the same way: force uniformity and submission. |
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Jorge Almeida |
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