> From: Alan Mackenzie [mailto:a...@muc.de] > Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:21 AM
> As I've said a few times in the current threads, the only thing preventing me > from moving fully onto mdev is not having a working keyboard and mouse > (evdev??) under X. > > Has anybody else tried this, and if so, what results have you had? I have not tried it since they removed the HAL dependency, but I believe you just need to compile xorg with USE=-udev and put the correct device information into the xorg.conf file. What X uses udev for is to enumeration your devices when it starts, and associate those devices automatically with the right drivers. From what Pandu has said, X cannot be made to poll mdev for the information it needs because the conversion is "backwards" from mdev's perspective: instead of mdev sending new-device events out to listening userspace applications, X is expecting to initiate a query into the device manager, which mdev cannot do. However, if you configure that all manually then X has no more need of a device manager, udev or otherwise. --Mike
