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

2019-10-11 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

[ANNOUNCE] xf86-video-amdgpu 19.1.0

2019-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
I'm pleased to announce the 19.1.0 release of xf86-video-amdgpu, the Xorg driver for AMD Radeon GPUs supported by the amdgpu kernel driver. This release supports xserver versions 1.13-1.20. There are no big changes in this release, just fixes and other minor improvements. Thanks to everybody who

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 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 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 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, 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