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Dale wrote: |
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> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> Dale wrote: |
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>>> [...] |
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>>> I would assume I don't have evdev here. Since I asked equery for |
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>>> anything with dev in it, it should have listed it if it was |
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>>> installed. That is why I ask if there was something new. I can't say |
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>>> that I have |
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>>> ever heard of evdev before. |
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>> For X, it's the x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev package. The driver uses |
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>> the in-kernel "event interface" driver for keyboard and mouse. It's |
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>> in "Device Drivers->Input device support->Event interface". You need |
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>> to configure it in xorg.conf to use it. |
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>> So in other words, you don't have it ;) |
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> Is this required for the new kernels? If not, why does it work in the |
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> old ones and not the new ones? Why is something not informing us it is |
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> needed would be a good question as well. I'll make sure the new kernel |
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> has that tho when I test it. Just in case. |
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It's not needed nor required. It's just a different driver. I'm not |
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sure, but I think the point of this driver is for X to support |
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autodetected input devices. If you remove all sections for keyboard and |
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mouse from your x.org conf, then it will autodetect them and use evdev. |
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This must be part of the plan to get rid of xorg.conf entirely; if you |
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delete xorg.conf, X should autodetect everything (it's not there yet I |
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guess, but comes close.) |
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