From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>,
Luca Bigliardi <shammash@artha.org>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: request for opinion on synaptics, adb and powerpc
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:36:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601062336.26035.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136608396.4840.206.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Friday 06 January 2006 23:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > Why would you want to switch to relative mode when leaving X? As far as
> > I know the only other mouse "user" out there is GPM and there are patches
> > available for it to use event device:
> >
> > http://geocities.com/dt_or/gpm/gpm.html
> >
> > Unfortunately the maintainer can't find time to merge these so they were
> > sitting there for over 2 years. FWIW Fedora patches their GPM with these.
>
> gpm among other legacy things ...
>
What other legacy things? And in that case I think manually forcing protocol
back to relative would be an option.
The thing is that Synaptics in absolute and relative mode is 2 completely
different devices with different capabilities. If you want to switch mode
you really need to kill old input device and create a brand new one.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 4:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060106231301.GG4732@kamaji.shammash.lan>
2006-01-07 0:25 ` request for opinion on synaptics, adb and powerpc Peter Osterlund
2006-01-07 0:51 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-07 4:17 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-07 4:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-07 4:36 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-01-07 4:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-07 4:46 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-07 5:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-07 5:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-07 8:25 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-01-07 16:04 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-01-07 18:40 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-01-07 22:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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