Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 13:59:10 -0400 From: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> To: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>, Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto-detecting vmmouse Message-ID: <79e70755-cb4c-7303-d3ab-bbbedf7b0bc0@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <7f9243f6-ef39-deb0-5cae-643460f59437@vmware.com> References: <7dafabbb-c906-86b3-d9e7-5dd4c59dec7f@vmware.com> <8c3432df-1960-b823-a12a-a285caa62184@yahoo.com> <f63c4dab758cd824868a9b7407ced3de@kapsi.fi> <37be0c30-c9c6-1823-24be-fbfa4077f9bf@vmware.com> <9b8cdaf82474373948efc0241fcd56d1@kapsi.fi> <7f9243f6-ef39-deb0-5cae-643460f59437@vmware.com>
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On 08/30/2016 01:14 PM, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: > Hi > > On 08/29/2016 06:21 PM, Arto Pekkanen wrote: >> Awesome! >> > Could anybody of you guys point me to the authoritative repo for the > xserver devd config backend? It doesn't seem to be present in the > xserver git repo? Is this what you're looking for? config/devd.c exists as a patchfile in the x11-servers/xorg-server port. https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11-servers/xorg-server/files/patch-config_devd.c?view=log Anthony > > Thanks, > Thomas > > >> Thomas Hellstrom kirjoitti 29.08.2016 16:29: >>> Hi! >>> >>> It's on my todo list, unless someone beats me to it. >>> >>> /Thomas >>> >>> On 08/29/2016 02:18 PM, Arto Pekkanen wrote: >>>> Is anybody working on a proper fix for this issue? >>>> >>>> Having to patch and recompile X.org is not a proper fix. >>>> >>>> Anthony Jenkins via freebsd-x11 kirjoitti 23.08.2016 21:36: >>>>> On 08/23/2016 04:43 AM, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: >>>>>> Hi! >>>>>> >>>>>> With the advent of the devd-managed Xorg device auto-detection, the >>>>>> automatic ability of loading the "vmmouse" driver instead of the >>>>>> "mouse" >>>>>> driver isn't there anymore. >>>>>> >>>>>> Previously, with the hal-driven detection, a utility called >>>>>> "vmmouse_detect" was run and the HAL suggested xorg driver was set >>>>>> accordingly depending on the result of "vmmouse_detect". >>>>>> >>>>>> So I was planning to restore this functionality somehow and when it's >>>>>> working kindly ask whoever is responsible to automatically install >>>>>> xf86-video-vmware and xf86-input-vmmouse whenever xorg is installed. >>>>>> >>>>>> Unfortunately I have trouble finding documentation that describes >>>>>> how to >>>>>> set the xorg input driver name for a mouse device detected by >>>>>> devd. The >>>>>> input driver name needs to be set based on the return code of the >>>>>> "vmmouse_detect" utility. >>>>>> >>>>>> Any help pointing me to a preferred way of doing this would be >>>>>> greatly >>>>>> appreciated. >>>>> Basically you will have to modify device_added(const char *line) in >>>>> config/devd.c to create a new InputOption "object" and set the >>>>> "driver" >>>>> option to "vmmouse" (assuming that's the driver name) using >>>>> input_option_new(). >>>>> >>>>> I did my own implementation of config/devd.c (I think others have >>>>> also, >>>>> but I think they're all basically similar) different from the one >>>>> currently in x11-servers/xorg-server/, it uses a function table to >>>>> call >>>>> a function for a given const char *line passed to device_added() to >>>>> make >>>>> a decision about what driver to attach. >>>>> >>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ScoobiFreeBSD_freebsd-2Dports_blob_xorg-2Dsynaptics_x11-2Dservers_xorg-2Dserver_files_patch-2Dconfig-5Fdevd.c&d=CwIDaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=vpukPkBtpoNQp2IUKuFviOmPNYWVKmen3Jeeu55zmEA&m=ZEdVZ4WvkFVmPYSSdr8gDNQJRcT_xdLT-5UC-W-fmZU&s=g5msGfDG8M69w7ZTtETKfDoFGdcUmNBceXVgnBz9O4U&e= >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> You'd add an entry to hw_types[] for the device node created by >>>>> devd(8), >>>>> adding a new function to fill in the InputOption object depending on >>>>> information from the system. >>>>> >>>>> Anthony >>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> >>>>>> Thomas Hellström, VMWare >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lists.freebsd.org_mailman_listinfo_freebsd-2Dx11&d=CwIDaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=vpukPkBtpoNQp2IUKuFviOmPNYWVKmen3Jeeu55zmEA&m=ZEdVZ4WvkFVmPYSSdr8gDNQJRcT_xdLT-5UC-W-fmZU&s=k6D2evC_l0AqKGT8WjctdDnIRoih2Gki6cEchxlsd_E&e= >>>>>> >>>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>>>> "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Anthony Jenkins
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