From: "Mike Edenfield" <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] mdev: Has anybody managed to get the keyboard and mouse to work under X?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:14:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004901cd0227$808803b0$81980b10$@kutulu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120314152048.GC24395@acm.acm>
> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:acm@muc.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:21 AM
> As I've said a few times in the current threads, the only thing preventing
me
> from moving fully onto mdev is not having a working keyboard and mouse
> (evdev??) under X.
>
> Has anybody else tried this, and if so, what results have you had?
I have not tried it since they removed the HAL dependency, but I believe you
just need to compile xorg with USE=-udev and put the correct device
information into the xorg.conf file.
What X uses udev for is to enumeration your devices when it starts, and
associate those devices automatically with the right drivers. From what
Pandu has said, X cannot be made to poll mdev for the information it needs
because the conversion is "backwards" from mdev's perspective: instead of
mdev sending new-device events out to listening userspace applications, X is
expecting to initiate a query into the device manager, which mdev cannot do.
However, if you configure that all manually then X has no more need of a
device manager, udev or otherwise.
--Mike
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-14 21:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-14 15:20 [gentoo-user] mdev: Has anybody managed to get the keyboard and mouse to work under X? Alan Mackenzie
2012-03-14 21:14 ` Mike Edenfield [this message]
2012-03-15 0:21 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-03-15 1:16 ` Walter Dnes
2012-03-15 1:24 ` Pandu Poluan
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