Re: [PATCH] xserver-xf86-config: re-enable AutoAddDevices for beagleboard

[Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>]

On Wednesday 29 May 2013 17:56:24 Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 04:01:12PM +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > This was added quite a long time ago because of poor interactions
> > between HAL and the X server when it came to enabling input devices.
> > HAL is long gone and I think it's safe to say we don't need to disable
> > this any longer, especially as it gets in the way of being able to plug
> > in the keyboard/mouse after boot.
> > 
> > (This has already effectively been removed for the other BSPs in
> > meta-yocto-bsp).
> > 
> > Fixes [YOCTO #1823].
> 
> Doesn't this break touchscreen calibration? 

I'd hope not...

> At least when I was adding it to my BSP it was also solving issues with
> xinput-calibrator expecting input devices with specified names (and autoadded
> were different)

Surely that's a deficiency in xinput-calibrator that should be fixed there if it 
is still a problem?

I didn't mention it in the commit message, but FWIW I did look at the meta-ti 
xorg.conf files and they don't have this line.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre