Re: Mouse and keyboard drivers in the Linux Kernel?

DAVID BALAZIC (david.balazic@uni-mb.si)
Tue, 25 May 1999 16:37:35 +0100 (MET)


Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz) wrote :

> Without gpm -R the mouse simply cannot be shared between two programs.
> Since most users use both gpm on the console and X for graphics, the repeater
> mode is the only chance they have to get it working :-)

Not true. I run gpm w/o the -R switch on two machines and on both
X11 and SVGAlib programs can access the mouse.
One machine has a serial mouse and the other a PS/2 mouse ( aux ).

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