[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch] pvfb: Split mouse and keyboard into separate devices.
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 09:48:51AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > Yep, that's unneccessary since I realized you can have a single > > device doing both mouse&keyboard, and get absolute co-ords from it > > with no issues. > > That happens to work with Xorg 7.2, and even for that you'll have to > play tricks like providing a dummy keyboard config section because Xorg > expects one device for the keyboard and one for the mouse. > > It doesn't work with older Xorg releases, 6.9 for example. Ahh, I did not know that. Not a problem for current Fedora, but it'll be important for guest distros based off old Xorg. > > So I don't really see any compelling reason to change the way the input > > devices are exposed. > > I do. The compatability with older Xorg servers does actually make it compelling > Section "InputDevice" > Driver "evdev" > Identifier "Mouse" > Option "evBits" "+1 ~2-3" # ev_key && (ev_rel || ev_abs) > Option "keyBits" "~256-287" # btn_* > EndSection I notice you've no explicit device listed here. Am I understanding right that, the evBits / keyBits options here will make it automatically 'find' the correct input device based on its declared capabilities ? Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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