more or less alive again...
Peter Berg Larsen [Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 02:08:48AM +0100]:
> > > 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 ?
>
> This is not an excuse for not the reseting it. (I often want(ed) to test
> ps2 in compare to how synps2 behaved)
I am currently thinking about that...
> > Btw, after running gpm with synps2, X is not capable of changing back to
> > ps2...
>
> No, because neither programs resets the synaptics.
...there are two things:
+) we should reset mouse, so that every program can read ps/2 device again
-) should not programs, which read ps/2 input be able to change to standard
ps2 theirself ?
> I am going to look futher into the code as I just experiented something
> funny after starting and stopping the synaptics. The keyboard updates
> slower and the mouse/cursor jitters when I press some keys.
Is that possilby kernel related ?
If not make a nice patch on the top of the other one ;)
Nico
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