Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

[Chuck Ebbert]

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> The driver grabs tochpad with EVIOCGRAB ioctl to prevent input events
> from bveing delivered to X through /dev/input/mice which is still in
> whidespread use. That's why evtest does not work. We could as Peter
> (CCed) to implement an option to turn off grabbing so users who don't
> use mousedev multiplexor can use evtest and other commands.
> 

What should people be using instead of /dev/input/mice ?

And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g.
mouse1 became mouse2 for many people?

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