Re: status of 2.6.7 ?

2004-07-09 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:44:45PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > [I am not subscribed to debian-kernel.] > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:06:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:57:12PM +, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > * XFree starts treating /dev/psaux and /dev/input/

Re: status of 2.6.7 ?

2004-07-08 Thread Branden Robinson
[I am not subscribed to debian-kernel.] On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:06:39PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:57:12PM +, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > * XFree starts treating /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice equally if both > > are listed, i.e. it will work if _either_ of them

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-05 Thread Sven Luther
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 12:19:19PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:43 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > I would suggest a solution as follows : > > > > 1) the XF86Config file is debconf managed : We query the database, inform > > the user with a low priority debconf qu

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 22:43 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I would suggest a solution as follows : > > 1) the XF86Config file is debconf managed : We query the database, inform > the user with a low priority debconf question if it is set to psaux, > and change it for him. This means a prior

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:34:37PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Actually it's a (fake-)adb keyboard. But adb already uses the generic > input layer in 2.4 like usb, so it's the same reason. s/keyboard/trackpad/ the former is true aswell, but completely irrelevant for this discussion ;-)

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:36:02PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Well, there's people dual-booting into both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. I do > > that myself, although on macs we've used /dev/input/mice in 2.4 already > > anyway. > > Becaue you had a usb keyboard. > > Also, this is one of the reason i

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:28:34PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > I don't quite like either of those. I'll try to take a look at the > > > X Code and/or talk to the X folks on whether we could fix X to autoprobe > > > for a core

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:29:47PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I don't quite like either of those. I'll try to take a look at the > > X Code and/or talk to the X folks on whether we could fix X to autoprobe > > for a corepointer. > > I would rather fix it in the installed XF86Config file, so we

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 11:15:11PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:43:20PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > The /dev/psaux situation seems to be a big mess. I added /dev/psaux > > > upstream long ago so I wouldn't have to change my XF86Config for 2.4 > > > vs 2.6. In t

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-03 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 10:43:20PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > The /dev/psaux situation seems to be a big mess. I added /dev/psaux > > upstream long ago so I wouldn't have to change my XF86Config for 2.4 > > vs 2.6. In the meantime X can have two different input devices > > specified and won't

Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)

2004-07-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:17:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:19:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > For example, i know that the XF86Config-4 file needs to be changed when > > using a ps2 mouse, since it was /dev/psaux previously, and is > > /dev/input/mice now. Br

Re: status of 2.6.7 ?

2004-06-30 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 04:57:12PM +, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:43:40PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:19:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > [...] > >> > For example, i know that the XF86Config-4 fi