Re: The new X-Kernel !
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 21 Oct 2001 15:19:00 +0100 (BST)
> 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.
Alan
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