Auto-detecting vmmouse

[Anthony Jenkins]

On 08/30/2016 01:14 PM, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 08/29/2016 06:21 PM, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
>> Awesome!
>>
> Could anybody of you guys point me to the authoritative repo for the
> xserver devd config backend? It doesn't seem to be present in the
> xserver git repo?
Is this what you're looking for?  config/devd.c exists as a patchfile in
the x11-servers/xorg-server port.

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/x11-servers/xorg-server/files/patch-config_devd.c?view=log

Anthony
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
>> Thomas Hellstrom kirjoitti 29.08.2016 16:29:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> It's on my todo list, unless someone beats me to it.
>>>
>>> /Thomas
>>>
>>> On 08/29/2016 02:18 PM, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
>>>> 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://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_ScoobiFreeBSD_freebsd-2Dports_blob_xorg-2Dsynaptics_x11-2Dservers_xorg-2Dserver_files_patch-2Dconfig-5Fdevd.c&d=CwIDaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=vpukPkBtpoNQp2IUKuFviOmPNYWVKmen3Jeeu55zmEA&m=ZEdVZ4WvkFVmPYSSdr8gDNQJRcT_xdLT-5UC-W-fmZU&s=g5msGfDG8M69w7ZTtETKfDoFGdcUmNBceXVgnBz9O4U&e=
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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Anthony Jenkins