Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:31:03 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Broken synaptics mouse.. |
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > You can use EVIOCGRAB for the time being in the XFree86 synaptics > > driver, this way you'll prevent its events coming into mousedev the > > moment it's opened by XFree86, which is probably exactly what one wants. > > Will that allow 2 processes to have access to the same event device > simultaneously? I am thinking about XFree and GPM. We just got away from > that mess caused by psaux providing only exclusive access to step into > the same problem again.
No, it won't. Yes, it's a problem. The only solution I can propose here is when you want GPM and XFree support simultaneously you have to configure both to use either /dev/input/mice, or both /dev/input/event, and not mix the two together.
The EVIOCGRAB thing could be optional in X.
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