[PATCH] man: list the drivers that are ignored when hotplugging (#35209)
Vincent Lefevre
vincent at vinc17.net
Tue Mar 15 06:49:29 PDT 2011
On 2011-03-15 13:21:16 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> 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.
Actually I was using the evdev driver, following the example in the
evdev(4) man page (and probably other information found on the web).
It was this one that was ignored in my case.
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