Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-03-01 Thread Andrew C Aitchison
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: Note that CONFIG_INPUT (the new input layer) exists in 2.4.x kernels as well... so you can test right now. It's just that 2.5.x (and 2.6.0 when released) has made the new input layer the default. I'm not really up to speed on the 2.4 stuff, never

Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Kendall Bennett
Hi Guys, I have to revist the mouse handling code in our MGL graphics library (runs in a console mode without X11) as it has been busted on Red Hat 7.3 and later machines. One of the things that has always bugged me about Linux is that there is no centralised mouse daemon in the system. GPM is

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Kendall Bennett
Charl P. Botha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:54:17AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: So I am wondering what sort of interest there would be in a high quality mouse daemon for Linux that could handle all of the mouse communications for Linux programs. The idea would be

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Alex Deucher
I believe Zephaniah E. Hull was doing some work for getting xfree86 to work dynamically with the 2.5 input layer. I think it was called evdev. I can't seem to find the link to his site at the moment though. Alex --- Charl P. Botha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:54:17AM

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Kendall Bennett
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:26:23PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that CONFIG_INPUT (the new input layer) exists in 2.4.x kernels as well... so you can test right now. It's just that 2.5.x (and 2.6.0

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:56:22PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:26:23PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that CONFIG_INPUT (the new input layer) exists in 2.4.x kernels as

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Kendall Bennett
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that is what I was afraid of. We need something that will work 'out of the box', so it sounds like that won't happen until 2.6 is released (or code is backported and enabled in 2.4 kernels). Like I said, it depends on your kernel configuration.

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fre, 2003-02-28 at 20:54, Kendall Bennett wrote: Charl P. Botha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 10:54:17AM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: So I am wondering what sort of interest there would be in a high quality mouse daemon for Linux that could handle all of the

Re: Mouse Daemon for Linux/FreeBSD?

2003-02-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 01:23:21PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that is what I was afraid of. We need something that will work 'out of the box', so it sounds like that won't happen until 2.6 is released (or code is backported and enabled in