From nobody Sun Oct 24 17:27:21 2021 X-Original-To: x11@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1380182246A for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:3]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4HclQK5wXDz4kg3 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::50:1d]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mxrelay.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB67D19569 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:27:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.5]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 19OHRLMD051915 for ; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:27:21 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) Received: (from www@localhost) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 19OHRL2m051914 for x11@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:27:21 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) X-Authentication-Warning: kenobi.freebsd.org: www set sender to bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org using -f Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 259410] x11-servers/xorg-server does not have dependency for x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 17:27:21 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Type: request X-Bugzilla-Product: Ports & Packages X-Bugzilla-Component: Individual Port(s) X-Bugzilla-Version: Latest X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Many People X-Bugzilla-Who: X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Resolution: X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: x11@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Flags: maintainer-feedback? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated List-Id: X11 List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-x11 List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N Bugzilla Automation has asked freebsd-x11 (Nobody) for maintainer-feedback: Bug 259410: x11-servers/xorg-server does not have dependency for x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3D259410 --- Description --- Recently I built ports from scratch using the 2021Q4 ports tree. Since I a= lso updated the kernel from 12.1 to 12.2 (STABLE) I was unaware of the automatic use of EVDEV within the kernel, and a (apparently) recent change to the xorg-server behavior to always make use of EVDEV (and never use the legacy devices). As such I had not installed x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev in a previous rele= ase. The handbook did not seem to point out that the EVDEV driver needed to be installed (it did have some hints on sysctl vars and related things, which = did not work for me since the driver was not there). However, through some sleuthing, I figured it out and installed the EVDEV input driver manually.= =20 Then X11 started working properly. It occurs to me that there needs to be some kind of dependency for this dev= ice in kernels where the default kernel includes EVDEV support, since the xorg server will not work any more without it. And as it is a single port dependency, ir probably would not hurt to make it an option that is (by default) on so that packages also load the driver. uname information: FreeBSD hack.SFT.local 12.2-STABLE FreeBSD 12.2-STABLE r370671 GENERIC amd64 Ports collection: 2021Q4 (first time observed) (sorry if it's a bit wordy, this is really a non-critical bug that may be better solved by adding information to the handbook)