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Bug 3751

Summary: DirectFB linux_input disabled by default
Product: SDL Reporter: Clayton Craft <clayton>
Component: videoAssignee: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 2.0.5   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   

Description Clayton Craft 2017-08-13 23:05:16 UTC 
linux_input module is disabled by default, despite the comments in source code that it is otherwise:

src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.c: 
    devdata->use_linux_input = readBoolEnv(DFBENV_USE_LINUX_INPUT, 0);       /* default: on */

src/video/directfb/SDL_DirectFB_video.h:
    #define DFBENV_USE_LINUX_INPUT      "SDL_DIRECTFB_LINUX_INPUT"      /* Default: on  */ 


When using the directfb driver, the linux_input module is suppressed unless the SDL app is started with "SDL_DIRECTFB_LINUX_INPUT=1" set in the environment. I recall seeing at one point that the directfb folks recommended using linux_input over the other input drivers, but I am having trouble locating this recommendation. In any case, I believe that this should really be defaulted to 'on' since it's vastly superior to the other dfb input drivers!
Comment 1 Sam Lantinga 2017-08-14 03:51:21 UTC 
Fixed, thanks!
https://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/rev/6f981ff3dc5f