[ubuntu-x] Xorg input-hotplug blueprint
Bryce Harrington
bryce at canonical.com
Thu Jun 5 11:34:09 BST 2008
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:32:48AM +0300, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008, Bryce Harrington wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've written up a first cut at a spec for input-hotplug work to be done
> > for Intrepid. Comments/edits welcomed!
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/InputHotplug
>
> Ok, here are my comments on the spec (could've edited it directly, but
> wanted to point these out separately so they could be discussed):
>
> Rationale:
>
> -TTBOMK runtime device reconfiguration is not possible yet, needs
> XInput properties (didn't get a confirmation yet)
>
> Design/Implementation:
>
> -if we end up hotplugging the keyboards, then we could drop the conffile
> completely?
> -should console-setup generate & update the fdi-file? (configuring HAL on
> the fly from the console-setup config didn't seem to work, unfortunately)
> -or maybe patch the server to allow only configuring the default layout
> etc in the conffile, and still use the hotplugging
> -if hotplugging only !keyboards, maybe leave the keyboard section
> in the conffile as it is now
> -correction: the mouse protocol is not specified in the current dexconf,
> the server/kernel defaults to PS/2
> -correction: vmmouse is currently used as the default mouse, so it's not
> "extra" :) and according to fedora changelogs it doesn't work with i-h
> -AllowEmptyInput; if needed, just patch the server to default to it
>
> can't tell anything about the configtools at the moment.. barely awake
> here ;)
Great, thanks, I've updated the spec accordingly. Please go ahead and
edit it directly for any other changes needed. Otherwise, I think we
can call it ready to go now.
Bryce
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