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Simply put what are some other input subsystems?

P.S. (a little context) Is there a popular alternative? (I'm looking at an HP-UX and have no idea how its taking care of this, because there is no /dev/input/event*) and based on the wiki Evdev is "closely related input driver for the X.Org Server" - can evdev exist without X.Org?

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  • > my question(s) is(are) how are other systems doing this? Doing what? Handling mouse/keyboard or handling multiple input devices of same type as one? Commented Jan 18, 2013 at 17:44
  • sorry, yes how are others handling the peripherals, Evdev - "...translates input events from peripheral-specific drivers into a generic structure which the input driver can easily translate into X11 events...", what are some input handling components, and how do they, well,handle input Commented Jan 18, 2013 at 17:50

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There is a whole bunch of input drivers for X.Org http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/ (look for 'xf86-input-'). Ones that are typically used is xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-mouse. Multiplexing of many devices can be done either by some kernel-side things (like FreeBSD's moused+sysmouse and kbdmux) or by attaching all input devices to X.Org and managing them with XInput.

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