Input hotplugging support

Peter Hutterer peter at cs.unisa.edu.au
Tue May 27 04:10:20 PDT 2008


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:09:01PM +0530, Deepak Bhatia wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> As per the release note of X11R7.3 as given below
> 
> ==============================================================================
> The X11R7.3 release incorporates the 1.4 version of the X.Org X Server, which
> is most notable for the addition of input hotplugging support, with device
> detection managed either through HAL or a dbus-connected manager.
> ===============================================================================
> 
> The above statement talks about hotplugging of input devices like keyboard and
> mouse connected to Xserver.
> 
> The question I have is that since monitor is the output device hence hotpluggin
> g of monitor is not supported.

IIRC RandR 1.2 with monitor hotplug support was added in server 1.3.

Cheers,
  Peter



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