Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:18:40 +0300 From: Arto Pekkanen <isoa@kapsi.fi> To: Anthony Jenkins <Scoobi_doo@yahoo.com> Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Auto-detecting vmmouse Message-ID: <f63c4dab758cd824868a9b7407ced3de@kapsi.fi> In-Reply-To: <8c3432df-1960-b823-a12a-a285caa62184@yahoo.com> References: <7dafabbb-c906-86b3-d9e7-5dd4c59dec7f@vmware.com> <8c3432df-1960-b823-a12a-a285caa62184@yahoo.com>
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Is anybody working on a proper fix for this issue? Having to patch and recompile X.org is not a proper fix. Anthony Jenkins via freebsd-x11 kirjoitti 23.08.2016 21:36: > On 08/23/2016 04:43 AM, Thomas Hellstrom wrote: >> Hi! >> >> With the advent of the devd-managed Xorg device auto-detection, the >> automatic ability of loading the "vmmouse" driver instead of the >> "mouse" >> driver isn't there anymore. >> >> Previously, with the hal-driven detection, a utility called >> "vmmouse_detect" was run and the HAL suggested xorg driver was set >> accordingly depending on the result of "vmmouse_detect". >> >> So I was planning to restore this functionality somehow and when it's >> working kindly ask whoever is responsible to automatically install >> xf86-video-vmware and xf86-input-vmmouse whenever xorg is installed. >> >> Unfortunately I have trouble finding documentation that describes how >> to >> set the xorg input driver name for a mouse device detected by devd. >> The >> input driver name needs to be set based on the return code of the >> "vmmouse_detect" utility. >> >> Any help pointing me to a preferred way of doing this would be greatly >> appreciated. > Basically you will have to modify device_added(const char *line) in > config/devd.c to create a new InputOption "object" and set the "driver" > option to "vmmouse" (assuming that's the driver name) using > input_option_new(). > > I did my own implementation of config/devd.c (I think others have also, > but I think they're all basically similar) different from the one > currently in x11-servers/xorg-server/, it uses a function table to call > a function for a given const char *line passed to device_added() to > make > a decision about what driver to attach. > > https://github.com/ScoobiFreeBSD/freebsd-ports/blob/xorg-synaptics/x11-servers/xorg-server/files/patch-config_devd.c > > You'd add an entry to hw_types[] for the device node created by > devd(8), > adding a new function to fill in the InputOption object depending on > information from the system. > > Anthony > >> Thanks, >> >> Thomas Hellström, VMWare >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Arto Pekkanen
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