From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:29:02 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , Till Straumann , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, George Staikos Subject: Re: [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing Message-ID: <20030125222902.A18919@ucw.cz> References: <3DE6C428.5000403@TU-Berlin.de> <20030125184701.A16865@ucw.cz> <1043521480.3684.32.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> <200301251558.30600.staikos@kde.org> <20030125220422.A18276@ucw.cz> <1043529955.3683.41.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1043529955.3683.41.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>; from benh@kernel.crashing.org on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:25:56PM +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:25:56PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Well... the problem happpens in console as well, and with other > > > > non-X apps like MacOnLinux. Some Apple PowerBooks have over-sensitive > > > > trackpad. Apple themselves implement a similar mecanism in the kernel > > > > driver of OS X. > > > > > > Mine is one of those machines. I have to turn off gpm for sure, and X is > > > quite oversensitive too (tuned it in KDE, but still this functionality would > > > be very nice). > > > > How about implementing it in mousedev.c? > > Right, though it would need hooks in kbddev or something to know > about keystrokes. It could accept keyboards as an event source for this purpose. I'd like to keep this out of the input core. > Also, I don't like the sysctl's as those need > allocating sysctl numbers, which are always a problem. In 2.5, > we could have these in sysfs, though for 2.4 I'm not sure what > to do. I don't think you can do much better than sysctl or module parameters in 2.4. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/