Re: Re-debconfage

[Mattia Dongili <dongili@supereva.it>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:30:15AM -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> Hi all, As many of you have likely noticed from the TODO list, the
> xserver-xfree86 debconf needs a rewrite. The thing needs to be spec'ed
[...]
> Ask for mouse input port (High priority)
>   Defaults to mdetect value. (Becomes low priority)
>   If no mdetect value available, defaults to config file value as best
>   we can determine (Stays high priority)
>   If no config file value available, defaults to last debconf value
>   (Stays high priority)
>   If no debconf value available, default to /dev/input/mice (Stays high
>   priority)

Hi, I packaged xfree86-driver-synaptics (Touchpad driver for xfree86,
it's basically ready, will upload in a couple of days) and I have
one question here:

is there some magic/modularization/cooperation you can think of to
provide some autoconfiguration also for addons/external plugins?
(I'm also waiting for ideas to pop up of my head but I'd need to go
deeper in xfree debconf scripts).

synaptics_drv.o basically needs to be loaded in the "Module" section and
needs a bunch of of options in the "InputDevice" section (there are
reasonable defaults)

Detecting it is just a matter of grepping /proc/bus/input/devices

any idea?
-- 
mattia
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