[PATCH evdev] When building against server 1.8, install 00-evdev.conf.

[Dan Nicholson]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:56:27AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Alan Coopersmith
>> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> > Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> >> Not quite. The hal backend ignores any devices that don't have the
>> >> input.x11_driver key set. We could change that, but it might be better
>> >> to keep this behavior for consistency.
>> >
>> > So right now, if I start up Xorg from git master on OpenSolaris, where
>> > we still use HAL since I haven't had a chance to code up the replacement
>> > code yet, it finds the devices fine via the HAL .fdi file shipped with
>> > Xorg that maps them to the kbd & mouse driver - is there anything we need
>> > to do to stick with this for 1.8?   Will any of the settings in the current
>> > config/x11-input.fdi be moved into xorg.conf.d files?  Should they?
>>
>> If you're using the hal backend, you don't have to change anything.
>> The options are still imported from the fdi. What gets tricky is when
>> you start mixing the fdi and InputClass settings. Since Peter and I
>> decided that the InputClass settings should take precedence over the
>> options passed in by the backend, you could have legitimate fdi
>> settings dropped. The case I think would bite you is where a user has
>> a custom fdi file setting the driver to synaptics and then you have a
>> generic InputClass that sets it back to mouse. I don't really know the
>> best way to handle that besides porting the existing fdi files to
>> xorg.conf.d files.
>
> yeah, that's what we had to tell our users too - change HAL files to
> xorg.conf.d and move on. HAL is using xml files so there's the option of
> creating xslt-based conversion tools to aid with that process.

Actually, I was going to take a stab at converting this script:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~teuf/media-player-info/tree/tools/fdi2mpi.py

to outputting InputClass sections.

--
Dan