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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 23:51:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Osterlund <petero2@...ia.com> To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com> cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz Subject: Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 17:42, Pete Zaitcev wrote: >> >> I don't think that you need to concern yourself with this too much >> at present. If X11 people (e.g. Kristian) present evidence that kernel >> fails to deliver an event, then we'll look at it. However it might >> help if evtest continued to work when X11 reads from /dev/input/eventN. >> It was an unpleasant surprise that it doesn't. > > 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. That sounds like a useful option. Implemented in my git tree: git clone http://web.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/synaptics/.git -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@...ia.com http://web.telia.com/~u89404340 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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