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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2010-06-22 14:40:13 +1000 |
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| committer | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2010-06-28 10:49:56 +1000 |
| commit | 8697811f56160146981f2364d6e154b2c57f388e (patch) | |
| tree | c17ab4dd3d9a0a7db7be54318bde1b0e2d40a724 | |
| parent | b06bffdc979eb7d1ebf10680bc9b11baf9bd34a0 (diff) | |
man: some minor fixes to man page.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | man/evdev.man | 21 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/man/evdev.man b/man/evdev.man index 504fdaf..9b9a0ef 100644 --- a/man/evdev.man +++ b/man/evdev.man @@ -19,15 +19,24 @@ evdev \- Generic Linux input driver .B evdev is an __xservername__ input driver for Linux\'s generic event devices. It therefore supports all input devices that the kernel knows about, including -most mice and keyboards. +most mice, keyboards, tablets and touchscreens. +.B evdev +is the default driver on the major Linux distributions. .PP The .B evdev -driver can serve as both a pointer and a keyboard input device, and may be -used as both the core keyboard and the core pointer. Multiple input devices -are supported by multiple instances of this driver, with one Load -directive for evdev in the Module section of your __xconfigfile__ for each -input device that will use this driver. +driver can serve as both a pointer and a keyboard input device. Multiple +input devices are supported by multiple instances of this driver, with one +InputDevice section of your __xconfigfile__ for each input device that will +use this driver. +.PP +It is recommended that +.B evdev +devices are configured through the +.B InputClass +directive (refer to __xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__)) instead of manual +per-device configuration. Devices configured in the +__xconfigfile__(__filemansuffix__) are not hot-plug capable. .PP .SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE In general, any input device that the kernel has a driver for can be accessed |