Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 04:42:48PM -0700, Dax Kelson wrote:

> 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...

Cool! I forgot. I thought only the regular mouse event protocol was
added.

> # 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.

It can be opened by any number of programs on both 2.4 and 2.6. 2.4
doesn't have the synaptics (or any other ps/2) mouse driver and thus
it's only used for USB mice.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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