On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:02:46PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:49:35 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 13:24:38 +1000, Peter Hutterer > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Having a generic catchall also adds devices like accelerometers. These > > > devices make X unusable, hence restrict matching to "known sane" devices > > > like pointers, touchpads, keyboards, tablets and touchscreens. > > > > Should we install a config file for synaptics too? Note that due to how > > config file search works, any existing xorg.conf.d in /etc/X11 will > > override *all* of the config files we put in > > ${prefix}/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d, so we should be able to put more than one > > file and have things work. > > > If the server installs a config file for synaptics, and I don't install > the synaptics driver, then my touchpad doesn't work, instead of working > with evdev just fine. I'd rather have synaptics (and vmmouse, and > wacom, and what have you) install its own config snippet.
I agree with Julien here, the special-case drivers are better off to keep their own snippets around. I'll add that once we have Dan's changes in to export the location from the pkgconfig file. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
