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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2011-04-05 15:37:04 +1000 |
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| committer | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2011-04-08 11:42:59 +1000 |
| commit | 2bbbe4546f56cd825606eff870e4817766d2e654 (patch) | |
| tree | 00d21f6fff50f4a996f578755727424966341d6b /man | |
| parent | 1390685854f7eedcb6802adaba8df274e96a4177 (diff) | |
man: add hotplugging info to man page
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/wacom.man | 34 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man/wacom.man b/man/wacom.man index ce9b39c..8911294 100644 --- a/man/wacom.man +++ b/man/wacom.man @@ -20,9 +20,37 @@ The driver functions as a pointer input device. .SH SUPPORTED HARDWARE This driver supports the Wacom IV and Wacom V protocols. Serial tablets only -need this driver. USB tablet support is available on some Linux platforms. -USB tablets needs wacom kernel driver being loaded before this driver starts. -Please check linuxwacom.sf.net for latest updates of Wacom X and kernel drivers. +need this driver. USB tablet support is available on some Linux platforms +and requires the wacom kernel driver being loaded before this driver starts. +Please check http://linuxwacom.sf.net for latest updates of Wacom X and +kernel drivers. +.SH DRIVER-INTERNAL DEVICE HOTPLUGGING +When input device hotplugging in the X server is enabled and no +.B InputDevice +section exists for a compatible tablet device and an +.B InputClass +section (see xorg.conf.d(5x)) assigns this driver for the device, the +.B wacom +driver creates multiple X devices for each a physical device, one X device +for each available tool. The list of tools is hardware-dependent. See +.B Option "Type" +as outlined in the +.B CONFIGURATION DETAILS +section. +.PP +These tool-specific devices are referred to as parent device and dependent +device. The parent device is the one presented by the system and the one +that causes the X server to load the +.B wacom +driver. This parent device then causes the automatic addition of several +dependent devices. If the parent device is unplugged or otherwise removed, +the dependent devices will be automatically removed as well. +.PP +Dependent devices may be assigned tool-specific options through additional +.B InputClass +sections. We recommend that a +.B MatchDriver "wacom" +line is used in these sections in addition to the user-specific pattern. .SH CONFIGURATION DETAILS Please refer to xorg.conf(5x) or xorg.conf.d(5x) for general configuration details and for options that can be used with all input drivers. This |