From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Till Straumann <Till.Straumann@TU-Berlin.de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, George Staikos <staikos@kde.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing
Date: 25 Jan 2003 22:25:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1043529955.3683.41.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030125220422.A18276@ucw.cz>
On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 22:04, Vojtech Pavlik 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. 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.
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-25 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-29 1:34 [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing Till Straumann
2002-11-29 5:31 ` Ethan Benson
2002-12-03 1:47 ` Michel Dänzer
2002-12-03 5:03 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-25 17:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 19:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-25 20:58 ` George Staikos
2003-01-25 21:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-01-25 18:04 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-26 9:59 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 21:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-27 19:16 ` Franz Sirl
2003-01-27 19:25 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-27 21:33 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-27 21:49 ` Franz Sirl
2003-01-27 22:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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