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> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:acm@×××.de] |
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:21 AM |
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> As I've said a few times in the current threads, the only thing preventing |
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me |
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> from moving fully onto mdev is not having a working keyboard and mouse |
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> (evdev??) under X. |
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> Has anybody else tried this, and if so, what results have you had? |
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I have not tried it since they removed the HAL dependency, but I believe you |
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just need to compile xorg with USE=-udev and put the correct device |
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information into the xorg.conf file. |
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What X uses udev for is to enumeration your devices when it starts, and |
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associate those devices automatically with the right drivers. From what |
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Pandu has said, X cannot be made to poll mdev for the information it needs |
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because the conversion is "backwards" from mdev's perspective: instead of |
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mdev sending new-device events out to listening userspace applications, X is |
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expecting to initiate a query into the device manager, which mdev cannot do. |
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However, if you configure that all manually then X has no more need of a |
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device manager, udev or otherwise. |
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--Mike |