On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:06:49AM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 08:20, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > JL> Is there any plans on writing drivers using the [Linux] event
> > JL> interface
> > 
> > It's most definitely a good idea.  The event interface allows access
> > to additionnal touchpad buttons, and it carries timestamped events.
> > 
> > In order to use the timestamps, you'd need a unified mouse/keyboard
> > driver that enqueues events from different sources in the right order.
> 
> It might be worth checking out
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29953. There are a few patches
> attached there that purport to create event interface drivers. They
> originally came from http://people.debian.org/~warp/evdev/ according to
> the reporter, but I don't see much left there.

Whoops, I'll dig the patches back up and put them up, the patches are
currently in the Debian X packages, and sometime I need to shove them
upstream if Brandon does not wish to do so himself.


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