evdev: keyboard or mouse?

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:58:22AM -0800, Sebastian Glita wrote:
> The mice and keyboards in xf86-input-evdev/src/evdev.c:EvdevProbe handle a
> "multiple-capability" device wrong for my use.
> 
> I have a wireless USB receiver so I use both a mouse and a keyboard with the
> same token.
> 
> In `hal-device`, the device for the mouse also has "input.keys" matching
> "info.capabilities".
> 
> I tried in /etc/hal/fdi/10-x11-input.fdi to <remove> from
> "info.capabilities" the "info.keys" from this strlist. It works.

The device probing is independent of HAL, so removing this key won't affect
evdev at all.

> The problem is that in `gnome-device-setup' when I drag the name from the
> Virtual Core Pointer it goes only to a keyboard item, and not to the
> "pointer" one (its "use" matches IsXExtensionKeyboard instead of
> IsXExtensionPointer).

Unless someone has actually taken the code and advanced it, I wouldn't trust
on gnome-device-setup 100%. Try xinput --reattach <mouse name> "Virtual core
pointer" and see if that works.

> This small permutation in evdev.c works for me (it disables `has_keys' in
> favor of XI_MOUSE to XI_KEYBOARD):

please always submit code changes as diffs, otherwise it's too hard to figure
out what the actual change was.

>     if (has_axes && num_buttons)
>         has_keys = FALSE;

No. Doing so means you essentially disable all keys on the device. I've seen
keyboards that advertise buttons and axes (scrollwheel) so you'd be disabling
all these keyboards.


Cheers,
  Peter