Possible Major bug in X.org update

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Sep 21 08:51:17 UTC 2008


On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 10:00:03AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > As said before, xorg-x11-server-1.5.0-2.fc9 reverts the upstream change and
> > kbd is now loaded automatically unless explicitly specified otherwise.
> 
> I hope that someday we'll stop working at cross-purposes with upstream
> on input (given that Fedora derivatives like OLPC already use evdev)

When F9 came out, evdev caused quite a few problems, both due to bugs in the
server/driver and lack of documentation about changes in config files. Most of
these bugs are fixed and F10 uses evdev by default now. So input-wise, we're
basically identical to upstream.

Cheers,
  Peter




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