On Saturday 24 December 2005 19:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > It should be doable once in gpm, all other apps can use gpm's repeater > > mode... > > > > > When it's in raw mode for use by the synaptics X driver, if course, it's > > > expected that those things are to be done by that driver. > > > > ...but you are right, doing it in /dev/input/mice emulation layer > > makes some sense. OTOH I thought we were moving away from > > /dev/input/mice... Its Dmitry's call I guess. > > Heh, yes, it is. No hurry anyway, I finally got synaptics working > properly in X ... > > Why would we move away from the mouse mux ? It's proven to be very > useful to me at least :) >
It is very limited - number of buttons, wheels, etc. Once X supports hotplugging mouse multipexor outgrows its usefullness (GPM can simply be restarted every time we detect new input device). -- Dmitry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
