Re: [PATCH 1/1]: input: add support for VirtualBox touchscreenemulation to the Lifebook driver

[Michael Thayer]

Le mardi 02 mars 2010 Ã 13:28 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov a Ãcrit :
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:44:48PM +0100, Michael Thayer wrote:
> > it still provides a reasonable user experience until the user has installed our
> > guest drivers.
> 
> It is your call but I would much rather if you worked on fixeng evdev to
> work with your virtual device rather than having to install a new X
> driver and going through the hoops trying to detect which one should be
> used on a particular box. At least on Linux...
That wouldn't really help us much here, as we are talking about distributions
shipping X.Org Server 1.4 and earlier, and those distributions are no longer
going to get that sort of update (in those cases in which they are still
getting updates at all).  Legacy support if you like.

Thanks again,

Michael
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