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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Broken synaptics mouse..
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:31:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030922053103.GA27045@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309211816.36783.dtor_core@ameritech.net>

On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> > You can use EVIOCGRAB for the time being in the XFree86 synaptics
> > driver, this way you'll prevent its events coming into mousedev the
> > moment it's opened by XFree86, which is probably exactly what one wants.
> 
> Will that allow 2 processes to have access to the same event device 
> simultaneously? I am thinking about XFree and GPM. We just got away from
> that mess caused by psaux providing only exclusive access to step into
> the same problem again.

No, it won't. Yes, it's a problem. The only solution I can propose here
is when you want GPM and XFree support simultaneously you have to
configure both to use either /dev/input/mice, or both /dev/input/event,
and not mix the two together.

The EVIOCGRAB thing could be optional in X. 

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-22  5:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0309110744030.28410-100000@home.osdl.org>
2003-09-18 23:43 ` Broken synaptics mouse Peter Osterlund
2003-09-19  5:05   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-09-19 11:48   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-21 17:20     ` Peter Osterlund
2003-09-21 17:27       ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-21 19:29         ` Peter Osterlund
2003-09-21 19:34           ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-21 20:26             ` Peter Osterlund
2003-09-21 20:42               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-09-21 23:16         ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-09-22  5:31           ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2003-09-22  5:58             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2003-09-22  6:09               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-10-01 10:03   ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-01 15:38     ` Peter Osterlund
     [not found] <xgHm.3mL.27@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <xlGW.2qw.15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-19 15:39   ` Ruben Puettmann
2003-09-21 21:17 Ricardo Galli
2003-09-21 21:41 ` Peter Osterlund
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-21 22:15 Ricardo Galli

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