Re: X compiled for evdev?

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> I see a note in linux/Documentation/input/input.txt about using X with
> the current input stuff for getting multihead. Has anyone built X with
> evdev support or is it standard via XFConfig manipulation?
>
> either way I'd like to document this.

Jim Getty was working on supporting evdev in X windows but I haven't heard
how far he has gotten.

> what about order detection? if two usb keyboards are attached, aren't
> they essentially randomly ordered? a long time ago i wrote an app for
> sorting this out via "press the 1 key" and "press the 2 key" etc on each
> head. do we have to do something like that?

That would require a huge reconstruction of the X server. The core code
assumes one keyboard.