From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 21 21:28:14 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0361243C42 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:28:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Received: from mailout.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [64.68.202.10]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48PPhF2Cd7z3HYc for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:28:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailout.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21555C44E2 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:28:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout.easydns.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (emo12-pco.easydns.vpn [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Wva9jHoLyohR for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:28:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hedeland.org (81-228-157-209-no289.tbcn.telia.com [81.228.157.209]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailout.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D976AC43BF for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pluto.hedeland.org (pluto.hedeland.org [10.1.1.5]) by tellus.hedeland.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 01LLS8Dt040809 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:28:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from per@hedeland.org) Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20200220154101.GA53326@ghostyhead.chthonixia.net> <1d1cb3e8-ee64-41a7-ac5c-919d3985bd57@malikania.fr> <5d661e60-c767-d03f-4882-75d4a7010924@hedeland.org> <20200221074003.ac92947e587090803bd4d6da@sohara.org> <20200221170929.ih2dqgmgb5fa3i2k@sea-ll-10936> From: Per Hedeland Message-ID: <6ab5505c-27e5-53e1-cc5b-9061684ccb9e@hedeland.org> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:28:08 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.3.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200221170929.ih2dqgmgb5fa3i2k@sea-ll-10936> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 48PPhF2Cd7z3HYc X-Spamd-Bar: + Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of per@hedeland.org has no SPF policy when checking 64.68.202.10) smtp.mailfrom=per@hedeland.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [1.33 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_FIVE(0.00)[5]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[209.157.228.81.khpj7ygk5idzvmvt5x4ziurxhy.zen.dq.spamhaus.net : 127.0.0.11]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.42)[-0.421,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_SPAM_MEDIUM(0.49)[0.492,0]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[hedeland.org]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[10.202.68.64.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.1]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:16686, ipnet:64.68.200.0/22, country:CA]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; IP_SCORE(0.46)[ip: (0.57), ipnet: 64.68.200.0/22(0.11), asn: 16686(1.72), country: CA(-0.09)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:28:14 -0000 On 2020-02-21 18:09, Ihor Antonov wrote: > On 2020-02-21 09:51, Tomasz CEDRO wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 8:40 AM Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:08:23 +0100 >>> Tomasz CEDRO wrote: >>>> This is clearly something that is very missing in the Handbook / WIKI >>>> / synaptics manpages! >>> Perfect opportunity to submit a documentation patch. >> >> Indeed! :-) https://github.com/wulf7/iichid/issues/18 >> >> This IICHID is a total fresh thing (and still experimental)! It had >> initial release just 9 days ago and I did not head about this project >> before. So nice to talk with smart people, thank you! :-) >> > > iichid looks very similar in purpose to libinput [1]. What are > similarities/differences? I wonoder what is the motivation for the > project? Well, my limited understanding (I haven't looked at the code for either iichid or libinput) is that this module gives libinput something to use for a certain class of hardware - it's not an *alternative*. How could libinput use hardware that isn't supported by the OS kernel? If you read my writeup earlier in the thread, I needed both this driver and x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput to get my touchpad to work. --Per