From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" Subject: Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:46:04 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070324001610.724a820a.zaitcev@redhat.com> <20070326144206.93805eeb.zaitcev@redhat.com> <200703262114.45287.dtor@insightbb.com> <460934D7.9030700@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <460934D7.9030700@redhat.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: Chuck Ebbert Cc: Pete Zaitcev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Peter Osterlund List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert 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