Bug 92897

Summary:	Split mixed devices into distinct pointer/keyboard devices
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Component:	Input/evdev	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	8, ds, peter.hutterer, r3pek, registo.mailling
Version:	git
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	49950

Description Peter Hutterer 2015-11-10 22:18:16 UTC

A device that's both a pointer and a keyboard device confuses the server with its strict pointer/keyboard separation, see Bug 49950 amongst others.

The only viable solution appears to be to split the devices at the driver level into a keyboard and a pointer component, then send the events accordingly.

Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2016-04-15 04:31:27 UTC

giving this a wontfix, it's unlikely to get fixed for the evdev driver. however, the libinput driver provides this functionality since this commit:

commit 1f43f3921f6ceebd9a0cb92ef998a930d5fc3a3e
Author: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Date:   Wed Nov 11 10:10:58 2015 +1000

    Split mixed pointer/keyboard devices into two separate X devices

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