Synaptics Xorg driver for FreeBSD/amd64

Norikatsu Shigemura nork at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 19 17:34:19 UTC 2008


Hi Eygene.

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 21:23:24 +0300
Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-fbsd at codelabs.ru> wrote:
> If you'll look at 
>   http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=blob;h=dbe158efc6e365cd5bd064d848df3a4f0c0d35f4;hb=43d9edd31e31b33b9da4a50d8ab05004881c8d5a;f=hw/xfree86/common/xf86Config.c#l1611
> you will see that server tries to add the mouse driver if there is
> no drivers of type 'mouse' or 'void'.  The hack with adding the "dummy"
> input device with type "void" disables generation of default mouse
> driver.  This was the true hack and it was a bit beautified in
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commit;h=ba9f5138fc32a7a7b97bcf941bc92751b7c6c2c0
> now there is a boolean option "AllowEmptyInput" that inhibits creation
> of core mouse and keyboard in any case.

	Grrrrrrr....  orz

> > So I don't know that it's
> > 	correct to fix this problem by way of b.  And, if x11-drivers/
> > 	xf86-input-void is not installed, that's solution will be crashed.
> Xorg server 1.4 already has "AllowEmptyInput", so Giulio and others
> who want to run only Synaptics driver, can add the string
> -----
> Option "AllowEmptyInput"
> -----
> to their "ServerFlags" section and see no automagically added devices.

	I've got it!  I confidently committed these solutions!

	Thank you!!


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