On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 09:28:27PM +0100, Tias wrote: > Peter Hutterer wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:26:03PM +0100, Harald Braumann wrote: > >>On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 08:48:32 +1000 > >>Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>>no, evdev doesn't have any specific touchpad features to configure > >>>this. generally, we encourage ppl to use synaptics for touchpads and > >>>evdev for other devices, avoiding the duplication of functionality. > >>>your case is a bit of a corner case, so you fall through the cracks > >>>here. sorry about that. > >>OK, thanks for all your help. One last question: will the evdev driver > >>eventually become the one and only driver and also implement device > >>specific properties, or is it planned to keep some device specific > >>drivers, like synaptics? > > > >At this point, I don't know whether to say yes or no, but my tendency is > >towards "no". > > > >evdev is a generic driver that's supposed to work with all devices (for some > >value of "work"). synaptics has two specific features, one of which is that > >it talks synaptics protocol (used on non-Linux systems) and the other is > >that many of its features are specifically geared towards touchpads. > >I don't want to mess up evdev with all the features synaptics has, it'd make > >evdev a lot harder to read and fix bugs for. > > > >now, as you may have heard there are plans to move the drivers back into the > >server. > > Ah, that's interesting. Is there some place where we can hear more > about this ? > I've spent some time trying to understand how touchscreens were > handled in the old days and now, and I would be interested to know > where it might be heading in the future : )
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02128.html is probably the best starting point - this was AFAICT also the first mention of it. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
