Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb:
My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian
layout (with no foolish extra "multimedia" keys) and a PS2 mouse with
two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do
I need/want evdev?
I should put this in a more specific manner: would it be safe/wise to
remove evdev from INPUT_DEVICES (which currently includes evdev,
keyboard and mouse) ?
The relevant sections of xorg.conf are
[...]
I'm not really an X11-guru but I'm pretty sure you don't need evdev. As
far as I understand it, the big advantage of evdev is that it's generic.
As a user, you don't have to worry about which driver you need because
evdev fits them all. As a developer, you only need to maintain one module.
You also don't need to configure it in your xorg.conf because evdev
grabs them all from udev (hald?).
With a 'conservative' system like yours (no special hardware, no daily
plug'n'play, ...) you don't need it as long as evdev does not surpass
the other drivers in other regions like configurability, performance,
whatever.
Hell, even I don't need it and I rely on synaptics, three different
USB-mice (two of them with additional buttons) and multimedia buttons on
two different laptop or laptop-like keyboards (USB and PS2). All of it
with daily suspend-to-disk, suspend-to-ram, plug'n'play and usage of a
docking station.
