Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Nov 2003 19:03:21 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [MOUSE] Alias for /dev/psaux |
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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:49:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > We could save the bootup mouse settings (the mouse will tell us) and > > restore them after we go trough all the probing if desired. > > That sounds like a good idea. At least for the mice that we didn't > recognize, that otherwise get basically "random" commands. > > How about something like this: > > - if "mouse_noext" is set (which implies that we won't be doing any > probing), we also don't set rate/precision unless the user asked us. > > Thus "psmouse_noext" becomes the "ultra-safe" setting. We still want to > have some way to set things like wheel etc info by hand later on (ie as > a response to the user _telling_ us what mouse it is), but that's a > more long-range plan. > > - if we do probing, we first ask the mouse for its current details, and > we restore the thing by default afterwards. That at least should give > us 2.4.x behaviour unless the mouse is broken (and for broken mice > you'd just have to have "mouse_noext"). > > Again, long-term we'd want to have the possibility of tweaking the > results later even with the autodetection. > > Does that sound like a reasonable plan?
Yes, it does.
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