From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S7vZ1-0005bX-5y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:16:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5ABEEE0B01; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3F4E0AAD for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:14:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=Hvb06jvS c=1 sm=0 a=xvUQ5II7JMRnhGkbsebX1A==:17 a=txVIi73YdL4A:10 a=FpjiDxphR3MA:10 a=6WvLBrxrMboA:10 a=wPDyFdB5xvgA:10 a=Uxmo08gEHq4A:10 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=bSy_3KihkCIlLdAvzSsA:9 a=8Gu4BhfGSbP5chhLE88A:7 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=knyxtoVKISQA:10 a=xvUQ5II7JMRnhGkbsebX1A==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 97.102.250.187 Received: from [97.102.250.187] ([97.102.250.187:43827] helo=basement.kutulu.org) by cdptpa-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.3.46 r()) with ESMTP id ED/6B-16302-F4A016F4; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 21:14:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345AA7D801C for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:14:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at kutulu.org Received: from basement.kutulu.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (basement.kutulu.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RfaWKhqLfrKc for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:14:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MIKEDESKTOP (173.221.47.98.nw.nuvox.net [173.221.47.98]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B636F7D801B for ; Wed, 14 Mar 2012 17:14:54 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mike Edenfield" To: References: <20120314152048.GC24395@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20120314152048.GC24395@acm.acm> 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 Message-ID: <004901cd0227$808803b0$81980b10$@kutulu.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Thread-Index: AQJw4UtN//0xwc7maAwowJ+5foo3T5Uii6Eg Content-Language: en-us X-Archives-Salt: 68682e3b-ebd8-4049-ac5f-f71be3ce2375 X-Archives-Hash: 6ec79fec3f3e4e85222aae21b6ef364b > 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