Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

[Peter Osterlund]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> On Monday 26 March 2007 17:42, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > I don't think that you need to concern yourself with this too much
> > at present. If X11 people (e.g. Kristian) present evidence that kernel
> > fails to deliver an event, then we'll look at it. However it might
> > help if evtest continued to work when X11 reads from /dev/input/eventN.
> > It was an unpleasant surprise that it doesn't.
>
> 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.

That sounds like a useful option. Implemented in my git tree:

git clone http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/synaptics/.git

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