Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 07:17:06 -0800 From: Ihor Antonov <ihor@antonovs.family> To: Per Hedeland <per@hedeland.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <20200222151706.4urojtjcjtaqsezs@sea-ll-10936> In-Reply-To: <6ab5505c-27e5-53e1-cc5b-9061684ccb9e@hedeland.org> References: <1d1cb3e8-ee64-41a7-ac5c-919d3985bd57@malikania.fr> <CAPyFy2A1SP3X1vizjjVDg3ynw5W7Kepf7Dp%2BYO3yMYtfwgr-=g@mail.gmail.com> <d9cad2f9-34ea-7bdd-d5d5-5d0a26512221@hedeland.org> <CAFYkXjnW=Wtnx0nVBMGbE-PR5Bh2W3-Wv%2B62Of_q=UZv7Y8==Q@mail.gmail.com> <5d661e60-c767-d03f-4882-75d4a7010924@hedeland.org> <CAFYkXj=Uo6M5sQj256juXNwvf2Zz0L%2BWpWCuuG=AWHwStL=vEg@mail.gmail.com> <20200221074003.ac92947e587090803bd4d6da@sohara.org> <CAFYkXjmze5y=KVkXoba_gywmX_24pWjfuzkuoyUnjt3wmwNSuA@mail.gmail.com> <20200221170929.ih2dqgmgb5fa3i2k@sea-ll-10936> <6ab5505c-27e5-53e1-cc5b-9061684ccb9e@hedeland.org>
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On 2020-02-21 22:28, Per Hedeland wrote: > 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 <steve@sohara.org> wrote: > >>> On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 06:08:23 +0100 > >>> Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> 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. Thanks for the clarification! > --Per > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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