U're better off running gpm in repeater mode and reading /dev/gpmdata in
whatever fmt u want, by instructing gpm to repeat in that mode. its pretty
useful for bus mouses especially, overriding the single open restriction.
Nikhil.
On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 09:17:26PM -0700, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 06:38:57PM +0530, Madhurjya P. Bora wrote:
> > Hi All!
> >
> > Suppose in the middle of a Linux session, I have pulled out the mouse (a
> > PS/2) cable. How do I detect that the mouse is no longer intact? I tried
> > the following C code, but with no result. All the time the status
> > remains same, whether I plug in or out the mouse cable. I also tried
> > writing a BIT to the device with write, but write did not complain, even
> > if mouse is no longer connected.
>
> According to:
>
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mouse&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.0-RELEASE&format=html
>
> you just need to try reading the device. If there is a mouse, you get data,
> otherwise, you get EIO.
>
> -Arun
>
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