Status if input device hotplugging

[Tiago Vignatti]

Nicolas Trangez escreveu:
> Hija,

Nicolas,

> 
> Some time ago there was some discussion on the list regarding how to
> proceed with runtime addition of input devices to the server. Could
> anyone tell me what the final decission was (iirc add HAL-based
> detection optionally to the server, next to the current (optional) D-Bus
> based interface?), and whether work on this has started?

Yes, it's already working. The X server (in DIX) provides the necessary 
API to support the plug and unplug of devices (all in xserver/config/).

What you've got to do is an external application that emits some event 
to X (through dbus) when something are plugged/unplugged. The 
application's goal is to talk with the API supported by X to decide what 
to do when some device are connected to the machine. Daniel wrote the 
respeclaration [0] and Enleth started some python script [1]. Both are 
really raw, but simply works! Personally, I prefer Enleth's approach.

I'm playing with this all on the last days, so if you have some 
questions concerning the configuration you can poke me on the IRC.

my regards

[0] http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/daniels/respeclaration.git;a=tree
[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-February/021599.html

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