On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Dave Morse wrote: > My 2.4 box doesn't have /dev/event* yet. > But it does have /dev/input/mice. If I use > GII_INPUT="input-linux-mouse:imps2,/dev/mice", mhub seems to report > buttons and mouse movement correctly, even under X11 (which also uses > /dev/mice btw). This is with a USB wheelie mouse, haven't tried the > ps2 yet. > > Is /dev/mice one of those inputs that can be opened multiple times?
Apparently (I haven't read the code to see how they handle multiple opens). > Is it low latency? Should be, it is a kernel-driven file handle and comes direct from kernel-space to the application with no intermediary user-space task. However, I'd use raw /dev/event events instead of the imps2 translation. One less layer that way. > I had not realized prior to your post that it was possible to have > multiple keyboards/mice hooked up to a PC as game controllers. Neat! Things are going to get even neater under Ruby. Linux may have true multihead soon such that single a PC with 2 monitors/mice/keyboards can be used by two people at once. -- Brian
