Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030330AbWAGEg3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:36:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030345AbWAGEg2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:36:28 -0500 Received: from smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.104]:16820 "HELO smtp101.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030330AbWAGEg2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:36:28 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: request for opinion on synaptics, adb and powerpc Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 23:36:25 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Peter Osterlund , Luca Bigliardi , Dmitry Torokhov , Vojtech Pavlik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060106231301.GG4732@kamaji.shammash.lan> <200601062317.03712.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <1136608396.4840.206.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1136608396.4840.206.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601062336.26035.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 28 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. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/