Re: [Qemu-devel] Bug in SDL key event processing

[Samuel Thibault]

Tomas Carnecky, le Thu 10 Jul 2008 16:20:12 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> >Tomas Carnecky, le Thu 10 Jul 2008 16:03:39 +0200, a écrit :
> >>Am I the only one who uses the evdev driver and runs QEMU? I can't 
> >>believe that.
> >
> >evdev has been experimental for quite a long time. I don't know e.g. a
> >distribution that uses it by default. I hence wouldn't be surprised.
> 
> It's used by default if the xserver runs on Linux and uses 
> auto-configuration (hald). That feature has been added in xorg 7.2 or 
> so.

Oh? Not on the debian machines I've recently installed at least.

> Evdev is actually the preferred way to talk to keyboards and such 
> under Linux. It has been stable for a couple years now (since 2.6?),

Err, that's not what my X.org contacts say about evdev :)

I'm not talking about the implementation in the linux kernel, but the
mess arout keyboard configuration.

Samuel