Around 1 o'clock on Sep 25, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > Some of us still use PS/2 mice...
Nearly all laptops still have the touch pad connected through the PS/2 port, so until the 2.6 driver is backported to 2.4, we'll need PS/2 support in X servers. > Yes; it looks like all input devices go through the single event > interface in 2.6. That would seem to guarantee correct ordering of > events from different devices. Not automatically; it still requires sorting events from multiple event streams as each device is presented as a separate file, however the timestamps present in each event make it possible to do this correctly. Old Ultrix machines actually merged the keyboard and mouse event streams within the kernel and presented a memory-mapped event queue. This was convenient from the X server's perspective, but seems rather hard to manage with the wealth of weird input devices available these days, not to mention supporting multiple users on a single machine. -ketih _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
