[PATCH] man: list the drivers that are ignored when hotplugging (#35209)

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Mar 15 15:11:21 PDT 2011


On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 02:49:29PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-03-15 13:21:16 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:
> > X.Org Bug 35209 <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35209>
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > ---
> >  hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man |   13 ++++++++++---
> >  1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man
> > index e3fd0ea..4bec316 100644
> > --- a/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man
> > +++ b/hw/xfree86/doc/man/xorg.conf.man
> > @@ -814,11 +814,18 @@ Example: the MIT-SHM extension can be disabled with the following entry:
> >  The config file may have multiple
> >  .B InputDevice
> >  sections.
> > -Recent X servers employ input hotplugging to add input devices, with the HAL
> > -backend being the default backend for X servers since 1.4. It is usually not
> > +Recent X servers employ HAL or udev backends for input device enumeration
> > +and input hotplugging. It is usually not
> >  necessary to provide
> >  .B InputDevice
> > -sections in the xorg.conf if hotplugging is enabled.
> > +sections in the xorg.conf if hotplugging is in use. If hotplugging is
> > +enabled,
> > +.B InputDevice
> > +sections using the
> > +.B mouse, kbd
> > +and
> > +.B vmmouse
> > +driver will be ignored.
> 
> Actually I was using the evdev driver, following the example in the
> evdev(4) man page (and probably other information found on the web).
> It was this one that was ignored in my case.

evdev has duplication detection built-in so it doesn't add the same device
twice. going from the info in the bugreport it's hard to figure out what
exactly was wrong though. I thought it was just the usual bug that we've
seen before (but somehow never merged to the man page). please attach your
log file in the bug so we can narrow it down further.

Cheers,
  Peter


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