From: Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: hotplug, input and XFree86
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 18:43:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100230732928849@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100229087228546@msgid-missing>
On Friday 05 October 2001 19:46, you wrote:
> For example, I have a Wacom USB tablet. Hotplug works well except
> that the input subsystem is not yet integrated so I have to guess
> which input device number is use by the tablet.
A nice work-around for mice is to use /dev/input/mice instead of the
pointer's device node, but it does not work with other input devices.
> So I propose to develop a generic 'input' driver for
> XFree86. This input driver will only understand a subset
> of the kernel-input events corresponding more or less
> to the native X11 events (motions in n-dimensions,
> n-buttons press/release and key press/release).
There is a input driver, using the event interface. It has to be ported to
XFree 4.0 though.
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linuxconsole/ruby/xfree86/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxconsole/
> The daemon will be responsible for
> - Creating one or more devices (daemon device) for each
> physical device that could be plugged in the system
> Those file devices can be opened by the XFree86 generic 'input'
> driver even if the physical device is yet not plugged in.
> - respond to hotplug requests by mapping those demon daemon devices
> to the kernel input devices.
> - translate kernel input events to XFree86 input events
> and redirect them to the appropriate daemon device.
Why don't you implement the ability to deal with disappearing devices in the
input driver itself?
bye...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-05 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-05 14:07 hotplug, input and XFree86 Stephane Chauveau
2001-10-05 15:51 ` Stephane Chauveau
2001-10-05 18:43 ` Tim Jansen [this message]
2001-10-06 7:39 ` Stephane Chauveau
2001-10-06 9:45 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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