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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2018 09:47:58 -0700
From:      Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org>
To:        Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
Cc:        Niclas Zeising <zeising@freebsd.org>, x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [CFT] changes and updates to x11 input devices
Message-ID:  <f6092216-e740-d429-49e0-0dc1d984ddf4@nomadlogic.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAECmPwvOV4967Gjk83TftZyWqiskMAk_ww4ot6zueVP10g-ObQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 06/10/2018 23:02, Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 9:58 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org 
> <mailto:pete@nomadlogic.org>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 06/10/2018 00:01, Niclas Zeising wrote:
>     > Hi!
>     > I've been working for a little while on incorporating the various
>     > patches floating around for changes and updates to xorg input
>     drivers,
>     > mostly related to libinput.  The result can be found here, in
>     the x11
>     > team development repo:
>     >
>     > https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-ports/tree/feature/input
>     >
>     > It contains upates to libinput, libeevdev, libwacom,
>     > xf86-input-libinput and dependencies.
>     >
>     > Please help me in testing this as much as possible, so that we can
>     > land it in the ports system
>     >
>     > The branch above is a complete ports tree, so you can use it to
>     build
>     > from, or to point poudriere at it.  Please test various input
>     devices,
>     > synaptics touchpads, wacom devices and so on.  Both success and
>     > failure stories are interesting.
>
>
>     i haven't had any issues installing pkgs via this branch. one
>     question
>     tho - i believe to make use of libevdev it requires a kernel built
>     with
>     evdev support correct?  if that is so - is there a specific patchset
>     that should be used?
>
>     i tested out evdev a while ago - but am not sure the patchset i have
>     laying around is the correct one.
>
>
> Hi
>
> For evdev simply add to your kernel config
>
> options     EVDEV_SUPPORT
> device        evdev
>

oh awesome - didn't realize it had been upstreamed.  thanks johannes!
-pete

-- 
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org
@nomadlogicLA




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