[Bug 259410] x11-servers/xorg-server does not have dependency for x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259410

--- Comment #2 from Bob Frazier <bobf@mrp3.com> ---
(In reply to Niclas Zeising from comment #1)

> Was there a specific issue that was solved by installing xf86-input-evdev?

yes.  when I upgraded the OS to 12.2-STABLE and then re-installed all ports
using 2021Q4 the xorg-server would not recognize the keyboard or mouse any
more.

I did notice that xorg-drivers had not been reconfigured and so the driver for
xf86-input-evdev was not enabled in the config (I enabled it).  Whether this is
the case for a totally fresh install I do not know, but it would seem to me
that this information should at least be in the handbook since the default
kernel now includes EVDEV but the previous ones did not.  The behavior changed
and it was confusing to figure out how to fix it.

So if it is not possible (or is already the case) for xf86-input-evdev to be
selected (or simply included) by default for kernels newer than 12.1 (or that
specifically hae EVDEV compiled in) then there really needs to be something
about this in the handbook to avoid this kind of confusion, am I right?

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