From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Subject: Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:46:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000703270846y87e4283m4009ff0a9f65dac4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460934D7.9030700@redhat.com>
On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> >
> > The driver grabs tochpad with EVIOCGRAB ioctl to prevent input events
> > from bveing delivered to X through /dev/input/mice which is still in
> > whidespread use. That's why evtest does not work. We could as Peter
> > (CCed) to implement an option to turn off grabbing so users who don't
> > use mousedev multiplexor can use evtest and other commands.
> >
>
> What should people be using instead of /dev/input/mice ?
/dev/input/mice is most convenient source untill X gets hotplug ability.
>
> And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g.
> mouse1 became mouse2 for many people?
Input devices are not guaranteed to be stable.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-27 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-24 7:16 Fix sudden warps in mousedev Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-25 5:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-25 18:19 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-26 3:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-26 19:17 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-26 19:30 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-26 21:42 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-27 1:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-27 15:14 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-27 15:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2007-03-27 16:04 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-03-27 16:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-03-28 20:51 ` Matt Keenan
2007-04-11 21:51 ` Peter Osterlund
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