[CFT] changes and updates to x11 input devices

[Johannes Lundberg]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:58 PM Pete Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 06/10/2018 00:01, Niclas Zeising wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I've been working for a little while on incorporating the various
> > patches floating around for changes and updates to xorg input drivers,
> > mostly related to libinput.  The result can be found here, in the x11
> > team development repo:
> >
> > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-ports/tree/feature/input
> >
> > It contains upates to libinput, libeevdev, libwacom,
> > xf86-input-libinput and dependencies.
> >
> > Please help me in testing this as much as possible, so that we can
> > land it in the ports system
> >
> > The branch above is a complete ports tree, so you can use it to build
> > from, or to point poudriere at it.  Please test various input devices,
> > synaptics touchpads, wacom devices and so on.  Both success and
> > failure stories are interesting.
>
>
> i haven't had any issues installing pkgs via this branch.  one question
> tho - i believe to make use of libevdev it requires a kernel built with
> evdev support correct?  if that is so - is there a specific patchset
> that should be used?
>
> i tested out evdev a while ago - but am not sure the patchset i have
> laying around is the correct one.
>

Hi

For evdev simply add to your kernel config

options        EVDEV_SUPPORT
device        evdev


> thanks!
> -pete
>
> --
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> pete at nomadlogic.org
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>
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