The evdev 1.1x release is a full rewrite with full hotplugging support. The configuration has significantly changed and this manpage details how to configure the new evdev. Please install this manpage by default.
(In reply to comment #0) > Please install this manpage by default. Which man pages?
the man page "evdev" feld@mark-laptop ~ $ man evdev I had to install it manually because the ebuild didn't include it. It's included in the tarball for this version....
'man evdev' works fine here. equery f xf86-input-evdev [ Searching for packages matching xf86-input-evdev... ] * Contents of x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2-r1: /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/xorg /usr/lib/xorg/modules /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/evdev_drv.so /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2-r1 /usr/share/doc/xf86-input-evdev-1.1.2-r1/ChangeLog.gz /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man4x /usr/share/man/man4x/evdev.4x.gz