On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:33:29AM +0300, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > Niclas Zeising wrote: > >> xorg-server now has the possibility to use devd instead of hal for > >> autoconfiguration. > > This is pretty great, and very much appreciated. I do have questions > though; reading the code it seems that: > > 1) 'usb_id' is always NULL, so 'MatchUSBID' directive in xorg.conf won't > work; > > 2) 'vendor' and 'product' will be determined from 'dev.x.x.%desc' sysctl > by splitting on the first space, so for example my USB tablet, which has > %desc equal to "WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet" will have vendor > "WALTOP" and product "International Corp. Slim Tablet" -- so those are > the strings I should use in 'MatchVendor' and 'MatchProduct'; > > 3) if 'devd' is restarted while Xorg is running, further hardware > changes will not be reported to Xorg. > > Can you confirm I'm reading this right? If so, are there any plans to > improving these points?
Yes you are totally right about all this points this should be fixed. I have no time to work on this right now. Anyone volunteering? regards, Bapt
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