On 2011-03-06 03:24+0100 Cyril Brulebois wrote:
Hi Alan, Alan W. Irwin <irwin@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> (26/02/2011):I do plan to give inputattach a quick try once I move from Debian Squeeze to Debian testing (probably in 6-12 months after testing has had a chance to settle down for a while), but if the inputattach method doesn't work, I will still need to fallback to the legacy approach at that point.ok.Of course, this discussion is all just a side issue to my original bug report on the missing dependency issue for the legacy approach. Please fix that! Also, please remove the moreinfo tag.Please don't “!” me. I'm not convinced this is a bug to only pull evdev on Linux. AFAICT if it doesn't work for your device, that's a bug (could be in the kernel, in the server, or in the driver) which ought to be fixed. So back to the initial bug report, closing. Feel free to file one (probably against xserver-xorg-input-evdev, that should be a good start) if you want us to look into it.
Hi Cyril: evdev and inputattach are separate issues. The issue I would like to see addressed is that xserver-xorg-input-all does not depend on xserver-xorg-input-kbd and xserver-xorg-input-mouse like it should. Could I have a response to that issue, please? If there is some reason why those package dependencies should not be fixed, that is fine, but I would like to hear what that reason is. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________