From: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Subject: Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 16:42:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073778167.7644.4.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040110195531.GD22654@ucw.cz>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-10 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-10 17:59 Do not use synaptics extensions by default Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 18:52 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 19:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-10 19:40 ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2004-01-10 19:46 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 20:29 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-01-10 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 19:56 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 20:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 23:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-11 8:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 19:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 19:55 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:18 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 20:23 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:49 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 21:33 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-01-10 21:47 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 23:42 ` Dax Kelson [this message]
2004-01-11 8:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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