Peter Berg Larsen [Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:55:31AM +0100]: [...] > > I first thought this would be a great idea, too. > > Now I think we should not do that. > > Think of the following: > > I run gpm with synps2 exit and reboot to windows. > > Windows will work fine with synps2, too. > > Getting back to Linux gpm's ps2 nor X will run anymore. > > Why ? Because other programs didn't do the homework > > we want to do now. > > The problem is, we cannot think the device is initialized and reseted > > fine by programs before. > > So I think the better solution is a reset in the initialization > > (like it is done right now). > > First of all a reboot will reset the touchpad to relative mode (ps2) so > rebooting from or to windows will not change matter (if I read STIG page > 17 correct 1)). I never read STIG. I have the acer tm 524 and the fact is, after a warm boot, the touchpad is not reseted correctly. Using X with ps2 is broken. Using gpm-1.20.0 works, because of the new init function. So currently i looks like Win->gpm->X. As you see, there is X less experienced with and has problems, that was one of the reaons I would like to join the work. I think whenever a driver is added to X, we should also be able to use it. (and vice versa) > Secondly it seems that we are not talking about the same > thing here. Reseting the touchpad at startup will not change anything, as > the initialization (to absolute mode) is the same no matter which state > the touchpad is in. Yes. > What matter is that when gpm quits the touchpad is > still in absolute mode, which would break any mousereading program that is > not touchpad aware. That's true, that's a problem. But what mouse reading programs really exist and are used if not gpm or X ? And those both should be able to work with a touchpad in absolut mode! Btw, after running gpm with synps2, X is not capable of changing back to ps2... Nico -- Nico Schottelius Please send your messages pgp-signed or pgp-encrypted. If you don't know what pgp is visit www.gnupg.org. (public pgp key: ftp.schottelius.org/pub/familiy/nico/pgp-key)
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