Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:29:55 +0200 From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> To: Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi>, Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, <owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Auto-detecting vmmouse Message-ID: <37be0c30-c9c6-1823-24be-fbfa4077f9bf@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <f63c4dab758cd824868a9b7407ced3de@kapsi.fi> References: <7dafabbb-c906-86b3-d9e7-5dd4c59dec7f@vmware.com> <8c3432df-1960-b823-a12a-a285caa62184@yahoo.com> <f63c4dab758cd824868a9b7407ced3de@kapsi.fi>
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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" >
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