Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-13 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 03:19:52AM +, Software Orchestration wrote: > On Friday, October 11, 2019, 7:38:57 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer > wrote: > > if your device has a /dev/input/eventX node anyway, then yes, evdev is > > the way to go. You may  not need any modification at all, evdev may do

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-11 Thread Software Orchestration
On Friday, October 11, 2019, 7:38:57 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer wrote: > if your device has a /dev/input/eventX node anyway, then yes, evdev is > the way to go. You may  not need any modification at all, evdev may do > the trick. I think I'm starting to understand how all of this starts up, the

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-11 Thread Peter Hutterer
On 12/10/19 10:43 , Software Orchestration wrote: On Friday, October 11, 2019, 3:33:52 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer wrote: the headers may have shuffled things around a bit - without knowing your source code I can't really comment on what has changed for you. but I don't expect there to be anythin

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-11 Thread Software Orchestration
On Friday, October 11, 2019, 3:33:52 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer wrote: > the headers may have shuffled things around a bit - without knowing your > source code I can't really comment on what has changed for you. but I > don't expect there to be anything that's not resolved by including some > st

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-11 Thread Peter Hutterer
On 11/10/19 20:29 , Software Orchestration wrote: On Thursday, October 10, 2019, 9:35:47 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer wrote: > I'd argue that any input driver that worked in the past should still work with current X servers, provided that you switch the SIGIO bits over to handle input threads i

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-11 Thread Software Orchestration
On Thursday, October 10, 2019, 9:35:57 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer wrote: > provided that you switch the SIGIO bits over to handle input threads instead. I saw this page on the Xorg site: https://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/XorgInputHOWTO/ But if I'm not mistaken, from what Peter was

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-11 Thread Software Orchestration
On Thursday, October 10, 2019, 9:35:47 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer wrote: > provided that you switch the SIGIO bits over to handle input threads instead. I see the eventcomm.c file in the synaptics driver: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics/blob/master/src/eventcomm.c

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-11 Thread Software Orchestration
On Thursday, October 10, 2019, 9:35:47 PM PDT, Peter Hutterer wrote: > I'd argue that any input driver that worked in the past should still work > with current X servers, provided that you switch the SIGIO bits over to > handle input threads instead. > > There are very few features that have

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-10 Thread Peter Hutterer
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 02:27:36AM +, Software Orchestration wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I have no idea who > decided what releases to list there as supported, but X.Org > > certainly isn't supporting all those releases upstream - though some > > downstream > > distros may be doi

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-09 Thread Software Orchestration
> I think I could get 1.20 on Ubuntu 19.08, do you know if that's the case? I should add, the client doesn't want to got to a non-LTS distribution. Doesn't sound like there's any compelling reason to go there, and hopefully the same code would run on 1.20 when the time comes._

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-09 Thread Software Orchestration
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I have no idea who decided what releases to list there as supported, but X.Org > certainly isn't supporting all those releases upstream - though some > downstream > distros may be doing so. X.Org itself is mainly maintaining the 1.20 series > now: > https://gitlab.f

Re: Input driver on 1.15.1 vs. 1.19.6

2019-10-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
On 10/9/19 6:05 PM, Software Orchestration wrote: Hi, I have a client that has a working serial input driver on Ubuntu 14.04, which is running the Xorg 1.15.1 server. I'm tasked with getting this to work on Ubuntu 18.04 which is running Xorg 1.19.6 In looking at the X.Org Server wiki page: h