On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:54:29 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Farmer) wrote:

> AFAIK, /dev/input/mouse* only works for USB mice in 2.4.* kernels. PS2
> mouse users have to make do with /dev/misc/psaux. And, unfortunately,
> only one program can read from the device at a time.

yes, that's true--it's only for USB. i'm not sure about the single-program
limit, though. if i open many xterms and run 'cat /dev/input/mouse0' in each,
all xterms show identical output. so it would appear that all cats are playing
with the same datas (ah ha ha..).

j.

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