Xorg Input Hotplugging

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 09:15:19PM +0300, ext Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Thursday 15 November 2007, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > > at least one of the properties for your devices should contain their
> > > usb vendor/product IDs.
> > > 
> > > other properties xorg understands for keyboards:
> > >  - input.xkb.rules
> > >  - input.xkb.model
> 
> Should not it be actually "evdev" always? As evdev is really the only driver
> that would work?

evdev is Linux-specific, and even then, hardware-specific drivers like
wacom work too.

> > >  - input.xkb.options
> 
> Does not work; results in empty string with commas, something like ",,"
> and X loops taking almost all CPU time.

This is fixed in git.

> > > xorg will look for devices with these capabilities (info.capabilities):
> > >  - input.keys
> > >  - input.keyboard (deprecated)
> > >  - input.mouse
> > >  - input.touchpad
> > > 
> > > xorg expects these properties to be set on these devices:
> > >  - input.x11_driver
> 
> Can I really set anything besides evdev, given, that ...

Yes, see above.

> > in the brave new hotplug world?
> 
> And how I resurrect my 3rd button emulation on notebook with 2 buttons?

This looks like a missing feature in evdev.

> Anyway here is what I tried as FDI:
> 
> {pts/0}% cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/x11-keyboard.fdi
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> 
> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
>   <device>
>     <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.keyboard">
>       <merge key="input.xkb.rules" type="string">xorg</merge>
>       <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb,ru(winkeys)</merge>
        <merge key="input.xkb.layout" type="string">gb,ru</merge>
        <merge key="input.xkb.variant" type="string">,winkeys</merge>
>       <merge key="input.xkb.options" type="strlist">grp:menu_toggle</merge>
>       <append key="input.xkb.options" type="strlist">grp_led:scroll</append>
>     </match>
>   </device>
> </deviceinfo>

Cheers,
Daniel
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