On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 09:48:07AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:37:19AM +0000, ael wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 04:35:27PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > I have written an fdi file so that the X support is tuned and working well. > > > > And now I have also written a udev rule so it is also working with the > > latest xorg. [..snip..] > > I have /etc/gpm-syn.conf installed with my gpm package and expected to > > be able to see & tune those parameters. Are you telling me that that > > file and driver is obsolete? > > Yes. Linux kernel 2.6 does not provide raw access to PS/2 port anymore > (unless you are bind serio_raw driver but then X driver will not work) > and thus GPM synaptics driver will not work. Kernel emulates > Intellimouse Explorer for legacy applications, that's why GPM default > handler continues to work. It has no idea about real hardware behind > /dev/input/mice. OK. I didn't realise any of that :-( > > Just to be clear: we are talking about support outside xorg? I > > thought evdev was an xorg driver. Is there a package for evdev when xorg > > is not in use? > > Umm, GPM used to have evdev protocol handler that supported topuchpads > in absolute mode, tablets and regular mice, unfortunately it was ripped > out for some reason. Current GPM evdev handler, even if it is enabled, > it a toy at best. It does make a lightweight system without X a bit of a problem. Anyway, thanks for the info & reply. ael _______________________________________________ gpm mailing list gpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linux.it/listinfo/gpm