Somewhat belatedy, I am forwarding these remarks by Robert Hardy on our evdev patches. -- G. Branden Robinson | Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux | I met a man who wasn't there. branden@debian.org | He wasn't there again today, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | I think he's from the CIA.
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- To: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Debian's evdev patches and evdev's /tmp/.X11-unix/evdev0
- From: Robert Hardy <rhardy@webcon.ca>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:17:03 -0500 (EST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412101330310.23461@vortex.int.webcon.net>
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On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:[Are you subscribed to this list? If so, I apologize for the private CC.]I don't think I am anymore...On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:26:50PM -0500, Robert Hardy wrote:On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Robert Hardy wrote:I'm evaluating Debian's evdev patches to xorg-x11 (or perhaps Gentoo's adapation of Mr. Hull's original patches it isn't clear.) I'm trying to figure out if they can be made to work in other distributions and if they can be generalized to the point where they have a better chance of gaining wide spread acceptance. At very least I would like to add more info to a howto wrt/ how to get them working with a USB switch.Never mind, I figured it out from the source. I'm sure you don't care but I now have a working evdev patched xorg-x11 Fedora Core 2/3 rpm.I'm sorry it has taken a while to get back to you. Actually, we do care -- or more precisely, will, once the packaging of XOrg for Debian is underway. We're simply focussed on stabilizing our heavily-patched version of XFree86 4.3.0 for the sarge release right now. Thank you for your work!Unfortunately I ended up giving up on them. I likely still have the SRPM sitting somewhere. The concept of the evdev driver finding devices automatically is great, however it really doesn't get me anything because it doesn't deal well with the devices disappearing/not being there. I was trying to use that patched xorg server on a box with a USB switch. If I happened to (re)start X with the keyboard/mouse switched to me 2nd PC, X would bomb saying it couldn't find a mouse/keyboard or something similar... The standard xorg drivers don't have this problem. I had some other issues too but I've forgotten them now... Regards, Rob -- ---------------------"Happiness is understanding."---------------------- Robert Hardy, B.Eng Computer Systems C.E.O. Webcon Inc. rhardy <at> webcon <dot> ca GPG Key available (613) 276-7327
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- To: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Debian's evdev patches and evdev's /tmp/.X11-unix/evdev0
- From: Robert Hardy <rhardy@webcon.ca>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 15:55:14 -0500 (EST)
- Message-id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0412151537480.18635@vortex.int.webcon.net>
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On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 02:17:03PM -0500, Robert Hardy wrote:On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Branden Robinson wrote:[Are you subscribed to this list? If so, I apologize for the private CC.]I don't think I am anymore...[...]Unfortunately I ended up giving up on them. I likely still have the SRPM sitting somewhere. The concept of the evdev driver finding devices automatically is great, however it really doesn't get me anything because it doesn't deal well with the devices disappearing/not being there. I was trying to use that patched xorg server on a box with a USB switch. If I happened to (re)start X with the keyboard/mouse switched to me 2nd PC, X would bomb saying it couldn't find a mouse/keyboard or something similar... The standard xorg drivers don't have this problem. I had some other issues too but I've forgotten them now...I see... Do you mind if I forward your message to the debian-x list? I didn't know the evdev code code had these problems.I don't mind. I believe warp's original documentation explicited said not to specify the device to be used with the evdev driver but to use filters. I had an unusable X server whenever I tried to use filters AND an explicit Option "Device" line for the mouse etc..... Some of my experience is described in the thread: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/wfsection/article.php?com_mode=flat&com_order=0&articleid=46 I'm not sure if I tried the configuration of an explicit device and "Dev Name" without a "Dev Phy". About a month after my post someone claimed this was how debian sarge handled it. Regards, Rob -- ---------------------"Happiness is understanding."---------------------- Robert Hardy, B.Eng Computer Systems C.E.O. Webcon Inc. rhardy <at> webcon <dot> ca GPG Key available (613) 276-7327
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