FS#2400 - XOrg with Evdev support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Woody Gilk (Shadowhand) - Thursday, 17 March 2005, 20:05 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 18 March 2005, 21:31 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Evdev support in XOrg allows for better communication with the kernel and some common USB mice. It also allows for mice with more than 7 buttons to work properly in XOrg. Details on implimenting this can be found at the following thread in the Forums: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=74473
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 24 June 2005, 11:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  xorg has support for evdev now. You need to configure it yourself though.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 18 March 2005, 21:32 GMT
This will probably wait til the next Xorg release, since xorg is a pretty hefty package to distribute.
Comment by Vardyr (Vardyr) - Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 21:19 GMT
Temporarily, you can use the tarball for this module from FreeDesktop.org's bugzilla. Sadly, the xorg SDK isn't included in the xorg package, so you'll have to make your own package for it.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=968

I'll write a tutorial on how to make all of this work if there is enough demand...
Comment by Woody Gilk (Shadowhand) - Thursday, 24 March 2005, 03:56 GMT
Those patches/drivers appear to be from the Gentoo patches that are listed in my thread. There is already a PKGBUILD for XOrg using the Gentoo patches to enable evdev support in that thread as well, so there's no need to write another PKGBUILD for it.

I have already built the package with the patches and it works wonderfully.

Glad this is actually being considered.
Comment by Vardyr (Vardyr) - Thursday, 24 March 2005, 05:59 GMT
Actually, the driver is a module separate from XOrg. Thus, you can still use the Archlinux XOrg package and simply install that module rather than modifying XOrg itself. I prefer that method, myself... that's what's in XOrg CVS HEAD now afaik.

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