Bug#572692: Please provide udev rule instead of hal fdi

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
> Version: 1:12.6.5-2
> Tags: patch
> User: ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu lucid ubuntu-patch
>
> Hello!
>
> vmmouse currently does not work out of the box any more, since X.org
> does not use hal any more for detecting input devices.
>
> I created an udev rule and tested it in both kvm (with vmmouse driver)
> as well as real iron (confirmed that it doesn't apply there), works
> well.
>
> debdiff attached, which also cares about removing the hal bits and
> triggering udev.
>
> I also sent the rule upstream:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26910
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>   

Thanks.

By the way, there's a typo in your patch (evdev instead of vmmouse in
postinst).

Brice