From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753892AbXC0POo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:14:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753893AbXC0POo (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:14:44 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48932 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753892AbXC0POn (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:14:43 -0400 Message-ID: <460934D7.9030700@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:14:31 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov CC: Pete Zaitcev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Peter Osterlund Subject: Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev References: <20070324001610.724a820a.zaitcev@redhat.com> <20070326144206.93805eeb.zaitcev@redhat.com> <200703262114.45287.dtor@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <200703262114.45287.dtor@insightbb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?