On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:40:31AM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:35:05AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 June 2007 01:23, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:19:59AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > > > > Like I said I would love if xf86-input-evdev did not grab the > > > > device at all. > > > > > > We have to disable the legacy input handlers somehow, not doing so > > > simply isn't an option. > > > > I do not follow. If user's xorg.conf does not use /dev/input/mice and > > does not use "kbd" driver then grabbing is not required, is it? Now, > > as far as I understand, lack of hotplug support in X is the main > > obstacle for removing "mouse" and "kbd" drivers, correct? > > Sadly, not quite. > > The problem is that if the user is not using the mouse and kbd drivers > at all, but is instead using xf86-input-evdev, and no grabbing is done, > then all key presses end up going to the console.
X still switches to its own VT, so those keys go to the X server via the console, and GPM also knows about console switching ... That is a sane way how to prevent the regular console from getting keypresses/mouse movements. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
