[ubuntu-x] Update to xorg-server for proper bluetooth udev handling
Chase Douglas
chase.douglas at canonical.com
Fri Sep 10 19:18:34 BST 2010
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 16:34 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 13:03 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 12:46 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > > Hi Chris, Bryce,
> > >
> > > The current udev code that parses USB IDs from udev is broken. It
> > > doesn't work for USB devices right now, and even if it was fixed up as
> > > is it would still be broken for bluetooth devices. This means I can't
> > > distinguish between my Apple Magic Trackpad and Bamboo Touch because:
> > >
> > > 1. The Apple Magic Trackpad's product name is derived when you configure
> > > it in OS X. My trackpad's name in udev is "cndougla's trackpad".
> > >
> > > 2. The USB ID of the trackpad would return the USB ID of my bluetooth
> > > receiver instead of the ID of the trackpad, if the code were fixed up
> > > as-is.
> > >
> > > I've pushed a patch upstream and Peter Hutterer has reviewed it. I think
> > > it will land in 1.9.1. I've added the patch to the Ubuntu xorg-server
> > > package and pushed the change to:
> > >
> > > git://git.debian.org/users/corp186-guest/xorg-server.git
> > > ubuntu-fix-bt-udev
> > >
> > > Please review the changes and upload the new package after beta freeze
> > > if all looks well. If you are interested in testing it out, I've pushed
> > > a test package to ppa:utouch-team/utouch.
> >
> > I forgot to file a bug and reference it in the changelog. I've fixed
> > that up now.
>
> The git repo hadn't been updated with the latest xorg-server package in
> maverick. I've added it to my repo and rebased my changes on top of it.
> I've also pushed the package to ppa:utouch-team/utouch.
>
> Hopefully things should be good this time :).
Any news on getting this uploaded into Ubuntu?
Thanks,
-- Chase
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