On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote > Walter, > > I'm confused about the xorg stuff in the WiKi. It mentions the > evdev driver as critical, but at the Notes at the bottom you say > "evdev need udev to be built". Can you clarify this?
I'll have to edit the wiki. The statement was probably correct when originally posted, but recent builds of xf86-input-evdev require >=x11-base/xorg-server-1.10 built with the udev flag. *SOME* xorg input device drivers require xf86-input-evdev and therefore udev. I'm running a few machines fine without evdev/udev, and xorg.conf for that matter, under ICEWM. xf86-input-evdev may also be required by fancy "desktop environments". Window managers like blackbox, fluxbox, FVWM, ICEWM, etc can be dressed up to look rather fancy, and use a lot less resources than GNOME/KDE/UNITY. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
