[yocto] [meta-raspberrypi][PATCH] rpi-base.inc: Add xf86-input-evdev to XSERVER

[Jussi Kukkonen]

On 16 February 2017 at 04:14, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:

> On 2017-02-16 02:45, Andrei Gherzan wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 12:25:48AM +0900, Yusuke Mitsuki wrote:
>>
>>> In order to fix problem that mouse does not work.
>>>
>>> This is removed c40558173ffd96c499d101155f6c4c2be85d9f0f.
>>> However mouse does not worked from this.
>>> ---
>>>  conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc | 1 +
>>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc
>>> b/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc
>>> index e069e70..051c717 100644
>>> --- a/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc
>>> +++ b/conf/machine/include/rpi-base.inc
>>> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ XSERVER = " \
>>>      xserver-xorg \
>>>      ${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "vc4graphics",
>>> "xserver-xorg-extension-glx", "", d)} \
>>>      ${@bb.utils.contains("MACHINE_FEATURES", "vc4graphics",
>>> "xf86-video-modesetting", "xf86-video-fbdev", d)} \
>>> +    xf86-input-evdev \
>>>      "
>>>
>>>  KERNEL_DEVICETREE ?= " \
>>> --
>>> 2.7.4
>>>
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>>
>> CC-ing schnitzeltony at googlemail.com as he might have an opinion about
>> this. I personally don't really hold on any of the options.
>>
>
> I think it's the right thing to do, in fact, I was preparing a
> similar patch myself.  The change that removed this argued that
> it was not the responsibility of the BSP layer, but if you look
> around at other BSP layers, almost all of them do include this
> driver as part of their X server setup.  It also lets X work
> again on the RaspberryPi "out of the box" with the simplest
> configuration - HDMI display + USB keyboard & mouse.
>
> +1


Out of interest: Why is xf86-input-libinput not appropriate for these
setups? I honestly did not know of a use case where -evdev would work but
-libinput would not...

Jussi
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