Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:23:35 +0000 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: hginfla@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: modular x11 and mousie buttons Message-ID: <459D1BF7.2030103@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <17821.4387.453571.787123@cally.queue.to> References: <17821.4387.453571.787123@cally.queue.to>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Howard Goldstein wrote: > A huge thank you Florent and other contributors for the impressive, > successful, and I know strenuous effort on getting the modular x.org > moved into freebsd. Wow! As you all know, it works fine under > the i386 6.2RC2 with the nvidia stuff. Everything works flawlessly > (I'm usually no more than a day being the stuff you push to the git > xorg origin) > > Wanted to ping Florent specifically on two things and your email > @freebsd.org bounces with a 4xx don't like you. First thought it was greylisting, but greylisting gives 2xx errors. That kinda sucks :-/ > You indicated on your > blog in a November entry something about the input drivers all being > borked except for keyboard, mouse, and evdev. The last one has me > interested even though it's a linux device since I was hoping to > exploit its functionality to take advantage of these cool extra mouse > buttons. Is evdev supposed to work on our freebsd machines? I think > I read it wrong. I have no clue about evdev. Input drivers used to be broken cause I updated xorg-server to a 1.2.x version (which isn't supposed to be stable before 7.3). I rolled back to the right stable version and stuff got fixed at the same time. > Assuming it isn't supposed to work I would volunteer to assist in the > effort to support these extra mice buttons. Would you be the contact > person to send patches to? I'm assuming evdev shouldn't work but if > it does, someone please let me know so I don't reinvent the wheel. Please send your patches upstream, and keep Eric (anholt@) CC'ed as he is our resident X.org developer. -- Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFnRv7MxEkbVFH3PQRCvEXAJ9jol0qXyb6enuKByTGDSAOnKqCVwCfQiZN 18NJUTohLxZlisAgb4GwE7c= =Wy/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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