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Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Tomas Carnecky, le Thu 10 Jul 2008 16:03:39 +0200, a =C3=A9crit :
>> Am I the only one who uses the evdev driver and runs QEMU? I can't=20
>> believe that.
>=20
> evdev has been experimental for quite a long time. I don't know e.g. a
> distribution that uses it by default. I hence wouldn't be surprised.

It's used by default if the xserver runs on Linux and uses=20
auto-configuration (hald). That feature has been added in xorg 7.2 or=20
so. Evdev is actually the preferred way to talk to keyboards and such=20
under Linux. It has been stable for a couple years now (since 2.6?), and=20
I've been using it ever since I remember it was available in the kernel.

tom