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Bug#228665: xserver-xfree86: [mouse] SendCoreEvents + ServerLayout entry leads to doubled events



clone 228665 -1
reassign -1 kernel
retitle -1 kernel: disable /dev/psaux alias of /dev/input/mice in Linux 2.6 by default
severity -1 wishlist
thanks

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:08:32PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 08:11:44AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:00:24PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> >> > That's not what I asked.  :)
> >> > 
> >> > I asked if /dev/psaux now also "gives the events of all mice handled by
> >> > the input layer, which handles most if not all input in 2.6 kernels."
> >> 
> >> By default /dev/psaux doesn't exist in 2.6 kernels.  I added a config
> >> option to make it synonymous to /dev/input/mice for those too lazy to
> >> update their XF86Config.
> >> 
> >> Does this answer your question?
> >
> > Ugh!  I am not sure that is wise!  It definitely makes life a lot harder
> > for me in the XF86Config department.
> 
> How about getting Herbert Xu to disable it in our 2.6 kernels, since the
> default XFree86 setup works fine without it?

Herbert,

Are you willing to do this for our 2.6 kernels?

(Please see the logs of bug #228665 for more background on this
request.)

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    I just wanted to see what it looked
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    like in a spotlight.
branden@debian.org                 |    -- Jim Morrison
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