On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:23:47PM +0200, José Carlos Carrión Plaza wrote: > El 27/05/2014, a las 12:08, akhiezer <[email protected]> escribió: > > >> Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 11:01:35 +0100 > >> From: [email protected] (akhiezer) > >> To: BLFS Support List <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Xorg drivers on BLFS with static devices > >> > > . > > . > >> I guess you could try using e.g. the evdev driver: but - at least here - > >> that tends to only be used in a *udev environment; and iirc has dependency > >> on some *udev stuff - would need to check notes to be sure. > >> > > > > > > - just to perhaps clarify: you can of course use the > > xf86-input-{mouse,keyboard} drivers in *udev environments too; and again, > > that's how it's done on some machines here - where e.g. evdev is still > > a bit ... bizarrely behaved. > > > > > > > > akh > > > > A lot of thanks Akh: > > With evdev I was unable to make keyboard an mouse working. That was the > reason to probe xf86-input-{mouse,keyboard}. I selected the version of both > of them by the date of release, but I don’t know if it’s the right way. > At some time in the past, perhaps in 2013, a release note for these drivers noted that they are for non-linux systems. What that meant, of course, was non-udev systems. But LFS has used udev for a verrrry long time, so we were happy to drop those packages from BLFS. No reason why you should not do as you have done, but for BLFS a desktop without udev is definitely "a path less travelled".
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