Re: events in evdev.c

2008-09-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sascha Hlusiak wrote: >>> Your argument would make sense if X didn't go to painful lengths to >>> maintain an abstract input driver API/ABI that allowed for arbitrary >>> drivers. >> confused. I was saying that the evdev wasn't as good an example of h

Re: events in evdev.c

2008-09-20 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 11:48:08AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Daniel Stone wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >>>> Chuck Robey wrote: >>>>>

Re: events in evdev.c

2008-09-20 Thread Chuck Robey
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 04:59:33PM +0200, Matthieu Herrb wrote: >> Chuck Robey wrote: >>> I'm really rather curious where you got the idea that FreeBSD had something >>> that >>> looked even vaguely like the Linux events. I know tha

Re: events in evdev.c

2008-09-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 09:24 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Chuck Robey wrote: >>> Sorry, I can't parse what you wrote. You don't know where I heard that >>> Xorg is >>> Linux-o

Re: events in evdev.c

2008-09-18 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Stone wrote: > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 08:38:09PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I don't know if this is important or not, and I won't harp on this, but I've >> heard before that an attempt is made both to keep ev

events in evdev.c

2008-09-17 Thread Chuck Robey
I don't know if this is important or not, and I won't harp on this, but I've heard before that an attempt is made both to keep evdev.c very current, AND to have it not have anything in it that is Linux-only. In evdev.c, in a lot of places, there's a use of a "struct input_event". Seeing as only L

screen size

2008-09-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For my XInput tablet driver, so far, i've been relying on options in xorg.conf to give me screen size, but I know that there has to be a better way. As a user, it's always been possible for me to have more than one mode set up, and switch between them

Re: Notify all users

2008-09-09 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Gene Heskett schrieb: >> On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Yan Seiner wrote: >>> How do I go about notifying all users? I am looking for an equivalent >>> of 'wall' for X. xmessage doesn't really work very well as I'd have to

another xinput-type question

2008-09-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have all of the scaling issues handled for the cases of having and not having the function key strip being used, so the next thing to do is to actually perform those fkey calls. I am not familiar with the more recent changes being made in Xorg ... i