On 10/30/08 09:35, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Aaron Zang wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> I am trying to configure Xorg to use a /dev/usb/hid* device directly
>> instead of /dev/kbd.
>>
>> What I did is to add the option part of the following to xorg.conf
>>
>>> Section "InputDevice"
>>>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>>>         Driver      "kbd"
>>  >         Option       "Device" "/dev/usb/hid2"
>>> EndSection
>>
>> But it seems not enough to work. So what else should I add?
> 
> On Solaris, the keyboard & mouse drivers in Xorg expect VUID events,
> which are generated by streams modules sitting on top of the underlying
> serial, PS/2 or usb driver.   /dev/keyboard & /dev/mouse have these
> automatically in place - but if you open an individual device like
> /dev/usb/hid2 you need to tell Xorg to push the appropriate streams
> module first with the "StreamsModule" option.   An example for a mouse
> is shown at:
>   http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0919/6n3ahk015?l=en&a=view
> 
> For a keyboard, the streams module would instead be "usbkbm".
> 

Yeah, that's what I want to know. I sensed I should get usbkbm pushed, but
I didn't know how.

Thanks a lot.
Aaron

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