Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:14:08 +0200 From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> To: Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi> Cc: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, <owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Auto-detecting vmmouse Message-ID: <7f9243f6-ef39-deb0-5cae-643460f59437@vmware.com> In-Reply-To: <9b8cdaf82474373948efc0241fcd56d1@kapsi.fi> 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>
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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? 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" >>> >
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