On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 13:46 +0200, Michael Hanselmann wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:36:00PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Cute. That sucks. What do you mean with "doesn't do input device > > grabbing as it should" though? For me it grabs the input device when you > > go into X and releases it when you switch to a console or such. > > It doesn't use the return value of ioctl(EVIOCGRAB) in eventcomm.c, > other than giving an error message. It just takes the first device that > looks like a touchpad and wants to use it. Because inputd grabs all > input devices and creates virtual ones using uinput, that approach > fails. Synaptics should look for the first ungrabbed touchpad like > device, or allow the user to filter out certain names (in case of > inputd, that filter could be '^\[inputd\] '). Ah. That should be easy to fix though. johannes
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