[RFC vmmouse] Install support files to try and have the driver loaded automatically via udev.

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 09:10 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: 
> 2010/4/7 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> > On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 19:27 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >> 2010/4/6 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> >> > Something else I'm wondering: Does it make sense to install the
> >> > xorg.conf.d snippet unconditionally, or will it hurt with the server
> >> > using HAL?
> >>
> >> It's kind of delicate. I think it should be done unconditionally, but
> >> it might cause user configuration regressions. Since the settings in
> >> xorg.conf.d will override the backend supplied options (fdi settings
> >> in the case of hal), you could end up overloading some user's setup.
> >> Ultimately, this is the way to go to be compatible with any server
> >> backend, whether udev or hal or some other fictitious service, so I
> >> think it's the right thing to do.
> >
> > But (how) will the InputClass be associated with anything from HAL?
> 
> For hal, you'll want to set the input.tags key to vmmouse in the fdi
> file. See server commit c6d9bc092c84ad5c68083a126aa7577baa42cef7. Or,
> I should say that you should have hal-probe-vmmouse also set the
> input.tags key to vmmouse.

I did that for the release, thanks.


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