kmouse

Aaron Ucko (UCKO@vax1.rockhurst.edu)
Thu, 09 May 1996 22:01:23 -0600 (CST)

I just installed kmouse 0.32 and gpm 1.09. Here are my observations:
- I had to make some changes to get support for module versioning.
- X and programs using libgpm were happy with kmouse.
- programs using libvga were unhappy, producing random output on the text
console when mouse events were generated whether they were trying to use
/dev/kmouse or /dev/ttyS0. (I have a MSC mouse on /dev/ttyS0.)

Here are relevant portions of a strace of an svgalib program which tried
to use the mouse (I ran it with /dev/mouse -> /dev/kmouse):

open("/dev/mouse", O_RDWR) = 6
fcntl(6, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
ioctl(6, TCGETS, 0xbffff858) = -1 ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B9600 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
write(6, "*n", 2) = 2
select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B1200 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
ioctl(6, TCGETS, 0xbffff84c) = -1 ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B4800 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
write(6, "*n", 2) = 2
select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B1200 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
ioctl(6, TCGETS, 0xbffff840) = -1 ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B2400 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
write(6, "*n", 2) = 2
select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B1200 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
ioctl(6, TCGETS, 0xbffff858) = -1 ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B1200 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
write(6, "*n", 2) = 2
select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
ioctl(6, SNDCTL_TMR_CONTINUE, {B1200 -opost -isig -icanon -echo ...}) = -1
ENOIOCTLCMD (errno 515)
write(6, "Q", 1) = 1

read(6, "", 1) = 0
select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
read(0, 0xbffff3b3, 1) = -1 EAGAIN (Try again)
select(7, [6], NULL, NULL, {0, 1}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 10000})
read(6, "", 1) = 0
select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
read(0, 0xbffff3b3, 1) = -1 EAGAIN (Try again)
select(7, [6], NULL, NULL, {0, 1}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 10000})
...

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