Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:46:04 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev |
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On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> wrote: > 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 ?
/dev/input/mice is most convenient source untill X gets hotplug ability.
> > And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g. > mouse1 became mouse2 for many people?
Input devices are not guaranteed to be stable.
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