enabling driver in XFree

Dejan Lesjak dejan.lesjak at ijs.si
Thu Jan 13 07:00:30 PST 2005


On Thursday 13 of January 2005 15:05, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> Am Do, den 13.01.2005 schrieb Dejan Lesjak um 14:40:
> > On Thursday 13 of January 2005 05:45, Marc Santhoff wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've tried to enable an additional XInput-driver by uncommenting it in
> > > "xf86site.def" but this file is overwritten by the FreeBSD build
> > > process.
> > >
> > > How is this expected to be done?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Marc
> >
> > I don't think it's really expected :) You would need to modify
> > scripts/configure file in XFree86-4-Server port directory.
> > Which driver is it? Would it make sense to install it by default?
>
> It's the "aiptek" driver and no, it does not make any sense to activate
> it since there's no support for the device itself. With pure "/dev/uhid"
> it doesn't work properly, as I found out in the meantime.
>
> Bye,
> Marc

Unfortunately. That would also be the reason why it's build is disabled - in 
general all the drivers that would work should also be built, so if/when 
there is a kernel driver available for this device, would you please ping us 
here so it gets included by default.

Dejan


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