Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: The new X-Kernel ! | Date | Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:19:00 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> We have the AGP, DRM and framebuffer drivers in the kernel anyway. It would > make sense to do all the autodetection in kernelspace, and let the info be > available to the X-server. I would love to kill all the hardware specific > stuff in /etc/XF86Config, especially the keyboard and mouse stuff that > belongs in or near the kernel.
Quite the reverse. The handling for mice/keyboards and dynamic changes of keyboard/mouse need to be in X11.
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