Re: Linux event interface XFree86 Input driver

[Zephaniah E\. H. <wa...@ba...>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:07:14AM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
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> > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:31:17AM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote:
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> > > Adreas Shuldei mentioned on lin...@li... th=
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> > > you have been writing a patch to XFree86 for an Input driver using the
> > > Linux /dev/input/eventX interface.  As of November he indicated that =
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> > > patch worked for point devices, and that you were working on keyboard=
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> > [ . . . ]
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> > If there is solid interest in this, I can get the keyboard stuff working
> > and shove the patches upstream.
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> Well, I am definitely interested, for one. I am currently using the patch
> below, which I adapted from Miguel Freitas' very hackish patch
> <http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/> to make it slightly less
> hackish.  It works for me, although I haven't extensively tested it.

Eww, that /is/ bad.

It is however perhaps the only user I have found for the interface in
question, so it will help me with the keyboard code /quite/ a bit.

I'm currently compiling a much newer X tree, once that is done and works
I'll start work on the keyboard patch.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

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