Does XOrg not have any proper HID support at all?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Sat Jul 24 07:00:59 PDT 2010


On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:24:05PM +0200, 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

Works for me here, have you not used the evdev driver in xorg?

The HID driver is in the kernel, not in xorg, and is not a trivial thing
to implement (seriously, have you read the HID spec?)

What specifically are you having problems with?  What are the errors
that you get.

thanks,

greg k-h


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