Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 May 1999 21:57:18 -0400 (EDT) | From | Bradley M Keryan <> | Subject | Re: Mouse and keyboard drivers in the Linux Kernel? |
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On Tue, 18 May 1999, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Hi All, > > We are getting close to finishing the port of our SciTech Multi- > platform Graphics Library to Linux (free Open Source under our > modified mozilla PL). One thing has been bothering me for some time > is that Linux does not appear to have a *full* mouse driver built > into the kernel. There is the /dev/mouse device you can use to > communicate with the currently configured mouse, however this device > simply passes back the raw mouse protocol data and we need to know > about *all* the different types of mice that can be attached, and to > somehow figure out what one is actually connected. > [rest deleted]
Agreed, the current setup is messy (users don't care if their mouse is a /dev/psaux, /dev/inportbm, etc., and they don't always want to do their keycode translation in userspace).
Vojtech Pavlik has been working on a generic input device framework that deals with many of your issues.
The patches are at ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/local/vojtech/input/
Brad
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