[CFT] Update of xorg libraries and MESA

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 16 09:04:00 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:33:29AM +0300, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
> Niclas Zeising wrote:
> >> xorg-server now has the possibility to use devd instead of hal for
> >> autoconfiguration.
> 
> This is pretty great, and very much appreciated. I do have questions
> though; reading the code it seems that:
> 
> 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?

regards,
Bapt
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