Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: request for opinion on synaptics, adb and powerpc | Date | Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:36:25 -0500 |
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On Friday 06 January 2006 23:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Why would you want to switch to relative mode when leaving X? As far as > > I know the only other mouse "user" out there is GPM and there are patches > > available for it to use event device: > > > > http://geocities.com/dt_or/gpm/gpm.html > > > > Unfortunately the maintainer can't find time to merge these so they were > > sitting there for over 2 years. FWIW Fedora patches their GPM with these. > > gpm among other legacy things ... >
What other legacy things? And in that case I think manually forcing protocol back to relative would be an option.
The thing is that Synaptics in absolute and relative mode is 2 completely different devices with different capabilities. If you want to switch mode you really need to kill old input device and create a brand new one.
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