Evdev ?

[Aivils Stoss]

On Piektdiena, 27. Janvāris 2006 01:43, david752004 wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a problem to understand what "evdev" means exactly. Is there one
> name for 3 different projects ?
>
> 1st case : evdev is a driver for xorg made by idealcorps to support a
> touchscreen.
> http://opensource.idealcorp.com/evdev/

May be

> 2nd case : An evdev protocol seems to exist for xkb to use in xorg.conf.
> I heard of it, but I did not found a documentation about it. It seems to
> be included in some distibutions but is not officialy supported by xorg.

Right. xorg 7.0 contains evdev input driver module. it is official w/o
manual and w/o XKB support.

Debian work around
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5696

> 3rd case : evdev is a programming library for input devices.

No library. Linux kernel input event protocol only.

Aivils Stoss