maintainer-feedback requested: [Bug 260565] x11-drivers/xorg-drivers: expand default selection by EVDEV

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From: <bugzilla-noreply_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 09:38:27 UTC

Bugzilla Automation <bugzilla@FreeBSD.org> has asked freebsd-x11 (Nobody)
<x11@FreeBSD.org> for maintainer-feedback:
Bug 260565: x11-drivers/xorg-drivers: expand default selection by EVDEV
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=260565



--- Description ---
FreeBSD 12.1 and up have evdev[4] in GENERIC (and MINIMAL).
After compiling usual xorg stuff, I was astonished that neither mouse nor
keyboard worked as they used to do for a long time: startx(1) was sufficient to
get a minimalistic but working twm(1) session.
There are multiple ways to alter xorg config to use mouse and keyboard, but
since auto-detection was the supposed and working way to get started, I'd like
to propose including xf86-input-evdev by default in x11-drivers/xorg-drivers,
to make it working again with recent FreeBSD versions.

-harry