Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 20:18:08 -0500 From: anonymous <johnandsara2@cox.net> To: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Bug 196678] x11-servers/xorg-server: make config/devd recognize /dev/input/eventX from multimedia/webcamd Message-ID: <56C66D50.9060004@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <bug-196678-8047-6rBtS7gQjo@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> References: <bug-196678-8047@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/> <bug-196678-8047-6rBtS7gQjo@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org wrote: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196678 > > Arto Pekkanen <aksyom@gmail.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |aksyom@gmail.com > > --- Comment #23 from Arto Pekkanen <aksyom@gmail.com> --- > (In reply to rozhuk.im from comment #22) > > I am no developer, but I am hoping this patch or similar like it get accepted > asap ... Currently one cannot use USB gamepads with the XInput protocol because > devd backend won't assign a driver for them. The XInput protocol is important, > because there are still very good emulators that only work on FreeBSD with > XInput, since their other alternative is the Linux specific API. no that's not true the way you said it. X11, X11R6 R7 any X11, accept ANY device ALWAYS HAS SINCE THE 1980'S (touch screen, custom keypads, mice anything), using XInput lazy developers sometime complain if that "there is no special support for my device by X11 like X11 XInput has for keyboard and mice". true: that's because whoever made your device didn't release the X11 source code that makes it "easy" however: it still stands true that X11 supports it, it simply is not as convenient to code into applications as mice or keyboard are; but any application can support a custom input even where X11 does not "know all about it" and even though "the giga bytes of desktop wrappers on x11" do not automatically service it all it takes in x11 is that an application USES XInput to (poll) a device - it is that simple nothing that does it simply? well that may be so but dont say "X11's XInput does not work". any x11 app can read any input - since the 1980's
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