On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
--
Dmitry
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