From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265698AbUAJXmz (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:42:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265699AbUAJXmz (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:42:55 -0500 Received: from [66.62.77.7] ([66.62.77.7]:31913 "EHLO mail.gurulabs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265698AbUAJXmy (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:42:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default From: Dax Kelson To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Pavel Machek , kernel list , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20040110195531.GD22654@ucw.cz> References: <20040110175930.GA1749@elf.ucw.cz> <20040110193039.GA22654@ucw.cz> <20040110194420.GA1212@elf.ucw.cz> <20040110195531.GD22654@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1073778167.7644.4.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:42:48 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 12:55, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Or, the very nice thing to do would be to port the XFree86 driver to > GPM, so that GPM can understand the event protocol as well. Already done... # rpm -q gpm gpm-1.20.1-dt8 # ps -e o pid,user,cmd | grep gpm 2068 root gpm -m /dev/input/event0 -t evdev -o type=synaptics -M -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2 I believe the issue is that /dev/input/event0 can't be opened by multiple things (gpm and X) in 2.4 as can be done in 2.6. Dax Kelson Guru Labs