Le 16/11/2017 à 03:01, Guillermo a écrit :
> 2017-11-15 14:11 GMT-03:00 Didier Kryn:
>> I don't know what evdev is (I guess some virtual device) and what's its
>> place in the big Xorg picture, but I think some of you guys know it. Any
>> usefull link?
> X11 comes in pieces; there is the server, normally installed as
> /usr/bin/X and / or /usr/bin/Xorg, and modules, that e.g. Devuan
> installs in /usr/lib/xorg/modules, I believe, and that include the
> video drivers (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers) and input drivers
> (/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input). Evdev an input driver (i.e. it handles
> the keyboard, mouse, etc.) that IIUC uses Linux' event interface
> (CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV, "Say Y here if you want your input device events
> be accessible under char device 13:64+ - /dev/input/eventX in a
> generic way").
>
> You can see which modules are loaded by X at startup in its log file
> (normally /var/log/Xorg*.log), and if your computer has the package
> that provides the evdev driver installed, see 'man evdev'.
>
> 2017-11-15 11:53 GMT-03:00 Laurent Bercot:
>> Is it really the only place in Xorg that depends on libudev?
>> I'd think it would be much, much more entangled with libudev than
>> this.
> Indeed it is. The X server itself:
>
> * https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/config/udev.c
>
> The modesetting video driver:
>
> * https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/drivers/modesetting/drmmode_display.c
> (drmmode_*uevent*())
>
> The Intel video driver:
>
> * https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel/tree/src/uxa/intel_driver.c
> (I830*UEvent*())
>
> The amdgpu video driver:
>
> * https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-amdgpu/tree/src/drmmode_display.c
> (drmmode_*uevent*())
>
> And probably more. Although it seems that in most cases the dependency
> on the libudev API is selectable by an option at compile time.
>
> G.
IIUC evdev merges inputs from various devices, keyboard(s),
mouse(s) and touchpad(s). But autoconfig has mostly to do with display
size and shape, and this is rather an output device. Sorry, this is
becoming off-topic.
Didier
Received on Thu Nov 16 2017 - 08:14:21 UTC