[CFT] Update of xorg libraries and MESA

[Matthieu Volat]

Le 16 sept. 2013 à 13:53, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> 1) 'usb_id' is always NULL, so 'MatchUSBID' directive in xorg.conf won't
>>> work;
>>> 
>>> 2) 'vendor' and 'product' will be determined from 'dev.x.x.%desc' sysctl
>>> by splitting on the first space, so for example my USB tablet, which has
>>> %desc equal to "WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet" will have vendor
>>> "WALTOP" and product "International Corp. Slim Tablet" -- so those are
>>> the strings I should use in 'MatchVendor' and 'MatchProduct';
>>> 
>>> 3) if 'devd' is restarted while Xorg is running, further hardware
>>> changes will not be reported to Xorg.
>>> 
>>> Can you confirm I'm reading this right? If so, are there any plans to
>>> improving these points?
>> 
>> Yes you are totally right about all this points this should be fixed.
>> 
>> I have no time to work on this right now. Anyone volunteering?
> 
> I am, once my flu is gone.
> 
> I'm actually using a devd backend I wrote a few months ago
> (which avoids the mentioned issues), but it's rather different
> from yours (more intrusive that is): directives are added to
> devd config to call a script when devices appropriate for Xorg
> are added or removed. That script will maintain a file with the
> list of those devices; it will also print add/remove messages
> into a special pipe, if it exists. Xorg will read the file with
> the list on startup, and will create and listen to the pipe to
> see added/removed devices. This way devd restarts are safely
> handled, and the script called from devd can invoke 'usbconfig'
> to correctly determine vendor name, product name and usb id.
> 
> The open problems here are:
> 1) what should happen if multiple X instances are running?
> 2) how to clean the file with the list of devices on boot?
> 
> If you're OK with this approach in general, I can clean up my
> code, update it and submit a patch.
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Just as a side note : I tested the devd backend and mouse & keyboard were detected. But what would be the best way to set the keyboard layout now?

Thanks for the work, it is awesome to see we'll survive HAL deprecation :)

-- Mazhe
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