Does XOrg not have any proper HID support at all?

[Cedric Sodhi]

Missed to attach reference

[1] http://man-wiki.net/index.php/4:evdev

On 07/24/2010 12:24 PM, Cedric Sodhi wrote:
> Hello, this is a serious question and a serious issue, as far I can 
> see. For the last month I've been trying all possible workarrounds an 
> tricks I could possibly imagine to get XOrg accept a
>
> 6 Degrees Of Freedom HID compliant Input Device
>
> as Input. And after one month I stand, though more frustrated, where I 
> stood before. Not only is there a lack of alternatives to the 
> canonical input drivers mouse and evdev, latter, which I supposedly 
> replacing the mousedrv is furthermore inferiour to the former and, 
> considering the time for which HID is a widely accepted standard, 
> poorly functional.
>
> A unindentificable and unverificable man-page which I found online [1] 
> makes claim of far enhanced configuration for evdev but I find no 
> trace of such capabilities anywhere on any distribution.
>
> The lack of a GENERIC HID driver, something which is widely 
> implemented by various software (GIMP for example supports HID from a 
> raw input stream from /dev/input out of the box - although with 
> limited configuration) in XOrg is severe!
>
> Many devices which are designed HID compliant and are thus supposed to 
> work out-of-the box with any contemporary operating system (not just 
> Windows) do simply not function with X unless there is a specific 
> Driver for the device.
>
> If I had the experience with driver programming I'd immediately get to 
> work - it must be trivial with the readily available set of HID 
> libraries, and I think any more experienced programmer could make a 
> half-decent HID driver in notime - although calibration and keymapping 
> would be mandatory - or is XInput too unflexible to handle arbitrary 
> HID input?
>
> --MD