Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 29 December 2008 15:32:45 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Dale wrote:
> >>> [...]
> >>> I would assume I don't have evdev here.  Since I asked equery for
> >>> anything with dev in it, it should have listed it if it was
> >>> installed. That is why I ask if there was something new.  I can't say
> >>> that I have
> >>> ever heard of evdev before.
> >>
> >> For X, it's the x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev package.  The driver uses
> >> the in-kernel "event interface" driver for keyboard and mouse.  It's
> >> in "Device Drivers->Input device support->Event interface".  You need
> >> to configure it in xorg.conf to use it.
> >>
> >> So in other words, you don't have it ;)
> >
> > Is this required for the new kernels?  If not, why does it work in the
> > old ones and not the new ones?  Why is something not informing us it is
> > needed would be a good question as well.  I'll make sure the new kernel
> > has that tho when I test it.  Just in case.
>
> It's not needed nor required.  It's just a different driver.  I'm not
> sure, but I think the point of this driver is for X to support
> autodetected input devices.  If you remove all sections for keyboard and
> mouse from your x.org conf, then it will autodetect them and use evdev.
>   This must be part of the plan to get rid of xorg.conf entirely; if you
> delete xorg.conf, X should autodetect everything (it's not there yet I
> guess, but comes close.)

For a single user conventional workstation using X.org 1.5, the X devs want 
you to install hal and evdev, then remove xorg.conf entirely and let X 
autodetect the lot.

Personally, I can't wait for the day when xorg.conf on single-users 
workstations can be trashed *entirely*

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