[PATCH] man: list the drivers that are ignored when hotplugging (#35209)

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Mar 14 20:21:16 PDT 2011


X.Org Bug 35209 <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35209>

Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
---
 hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man
index e3fd0ea..4bec316 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man
+++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man
@@ -814,11 +814,18 @@ Example: the MIT-SHM extension can be disabled with the following entry:
 The config file may have multiple
 .B InputDevice
 sections.
-Recent X servers employ input hotplugging to add input devices, with the HAL
-backend being the default backend for X servers since 1.4. It is usually not
+Recent X servers employ HAL or udev backends for input device enumeration
+and input hotplugging. It is usually not
 necessary to provide
 .B InputDevice
-sections in the xorg.conf if hotplugging is enabled.
+sections in the xorg.conf if hotplugging is in use. If hotplugging is
+enabled,
+.B InputDevice
+sections using the
+.B mouse, kbd
+and
+.B vmmouse
+driver will be ignored.
 .PP
 If hotplugging is disabled, there will normally
 be at least two: one for the core (primary) keyboard
-- 
1.7.4


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