Re: evdev driver in xorg-x11 (6.9.0.dfsg.1-3)
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 05:03:52PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> i have here a system witch runs two Xservers, has two heads with
> two displays, two keyboards and two mice.
>
> I used to use the evdev driver and identified my devices like
> this:
> Option "Dev Name" "ELECOM ELECOM image sensor mouse with wheel"
>
> note the cool name whith which i could identify it easily by its
> internal name. Alternatively i could give the device path like
> this:
>
> # Option "Dev Phys" "usb-0000:00:02.3-1.1/input0"
>
> now the new driver requires a device file. how do you recommend
> to do that, so that the mice and keyboards are told apart
> reliably?
Use a udev rule.
> I am curious: why wasn't our (superior?) driver integrated
> upstream instead? it seemed more feature full and usefull.
For various reasons, it was felt that evdev warranted its own driver,
instead of being hacked into the kbd/mouse drivers which were already
bloated with random code. The normal evdev is getting there; there are
patches for XKB support, f.e.
Cheers,
Daniel
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