On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 Peter Hutterer kindly responded: > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 12:04:57PM +0200, Bernhard Prell wrote:
> > ... <snip>... > > > Today I updated a linux installation to xorg 1.7 (the distribution is > > gentoo btw.) and was confronted with a message that support for the > > elographics driver was dropped. > > are you sure you're talking about elographics here? it's one of the few > input drivers that's half-maintained. it's being kept buildable and even > saw some real changes more-or-less recently. It certainly builds, git > master does so anyway. It's overdue for a release though so maybe that's > the issue here? > Yes, I am talking about elographics. I fetched the latetst version from git master and injected it into a normal "emerge" of the xf86-input-elographics-1.2.3 "ebuild" (gentoo-package). (Pausing the emerge by ctrl-z, cp, fg) It works very well as far as I can see! :-) Obviously it has not diffused yet to the responsible gentoo package maintainer... > > ... <snip>... > > > > Maybe someone can supply me with a working xf86Elo.c or can point me to a > > person I can ask, or point me to a document where I can find the > > information to fix it myself (quickly). If I should become the maintainer > > of the driver because nobody else wants to do it, who should I "inquire" > > to :-) ? > > me. more or less :) > > the reason we deprecated a bunch of input drivers is twofold - one is that > most of these devices are well supported by the (Linux) kernel now and > don't have a need for a specific X driver. > the other reason is that we don't have hardware to test these drivers so > beyond build testing there's not much we can do. > > anyway. as I said, elographics seems to be building fine from git but we'd > still welcome a new maintainer. it's not a lot of work, anytime the API > changes we update the mouse, keyboard, evdev and synaptics drivers and the > patches are usually quite easy to port to elographics. > so if you're interested in that, let me know in private and I'll give you a > run-down of what's needed. > > Cheers, > Peter > Maybe I will come back to you regarding this "maintainer topic" next week, now I'm off for a long weekend :-) Thank you (and Tias) for your support, Bernhard _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
