[PATCH] config: only match sane devices in 10-evdev.conf

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Wed Apr 7 14:02:46 PDT 2010


On Wed, Apr  7, 2010 at 11:49:35 -0700, Keith Packard wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:24:38 +1000, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> 
> > Having a generic catchall also adds devices like accelerometers. These
> > devices make X unusable, hence restrict matching to "known sane" devices
> > like pointers, touchpads, keyboards, tablets and touchscreens.
> 
> Should we install a config file for synaptics too? Note that due to how
> config file search works, any existing xorg.conf.d in /etc/X11 will
> override *all* of the config files we put in
> ${prefix}/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, so we should be able to put more than one
> file and have things work.
> 
If the server installs a config file for synaptics, and I don't install
the synaptics driver, then my touchpad doesn't work, instead of working
with evdev just fine.  I'd rather have synaptics (and vmmouse, and
wacom, and what have you) install its own config snippet.

Cheers,
Julien


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