On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:33:33PM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote: > The mouse appears as a regular PS/2 mouse and detecting that it's the > special vmmouse > a is done completely out of band; we can't change how this works for > compatibility reasons > so I've got to make do.
There's no possibility of it answering an extended PS/2 query? This obviously doesn't solve the problem (since it'd need additional kernel support and so you're screwed from an existing software point of view anyway), but it'd be a cleaner solution going forwards. > I've attached example fdi and callout script implementations (the > vmmouse-detect > binary that is referred to is debian/ubuntu specific but that can be folded > into > a hald-probe style binary or bundled elsewhere if desired) Hmm. The fdi seemed to be missing? > Alternatively it could live outside of hal - possibly with the X11 driver > package > itself, but I'm concerned about how successfully it would be deployed in > that situation. I think shipping it with vmmouse ought to work - distributions are going to have to upgrade some component in any case. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
