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SubjectRe: Do not use synaptics extensions by default
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On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 12:55, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Or, the very nice thing to do would be to port the XFree86 driver to
> GPM, so that GPM can understand the event protocol as well.

Already done...

# rpm -q gpm
gpm-1.20.1-dt8

# ps -e o pid,user,cmd | grep gpm
2068 root gpm -m /dev/input/event0 -t evdev -o type=synaptics -M -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2

I believe the issue is that /dev/input/event0 can't be opened by
multiple things (gpm and X) in 2.4 as can be done in 2.6.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs

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