Re: input device support in xserver

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 12:10:09PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote:
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> 
>    In the mean time, I believe that it would be very valuable to
>    have a Linux evdev driver. Linux evdev is the abstraction for
>    all input on Linux. Support for evdev should bring along
>    support for all input device currently supported by the Linux
>    kernel.
> 

A while ago i coded up some stuff to get evdev stuff working. It
currently only finds one hardcoded device at a time, but it's pretty
much (1) working. If you'd like me to send this chunk out, let me know.
Ultimately, using evdev, we could pull out all the ps2/usb stuff, even
for the keyboard layer.

I got going on this when i started working on getting my synaptics
touchpad working nicely, just never had time to finish it.

-pete

1) "pretty much" addendum - The reason i finally gave up and started
working on other things is this nasty bug where i was receiving a delta
x of *16* immediately following a delta x of 2... Made my mouse jump
when moving to the right at all... very frustrating. My C is okay, but
not great, and i definitely do not have the time/ability to debug this
properly.

-- 
Peter Johanson
<[email protected]>

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