From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jun 24 01:17:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA03450 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA03442; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 01:16:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA21550; Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:21:49 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606240851.SAA21550@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: moused conflicts with X11 To: sos@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 18:21:48 +0930 (CST) Cc: ache@nagual.ru, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199606240718.JAA05240@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@freebsd.org" at Jun 24, 96 09:18:53 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk sos@freebsd.org stands accused of saying: > > Actually I think its an artifact from both moused & the X server > having /dev/mousedev open at the same time. This is only > fixable by either killing moused when running X, or have > moused track the shown vty, and open/close /dev/mousedev according > to that. > I'd prefer the moused solution, but I'm not sure what sideeffects > it might have... It won't work, as the X server keeps the mouse open once and doesn't close it. Either we need a 'mouse' line discipline that allows multiple readers (erk.), or we look at something like the 'snp' device's hooks to provide moused with a means of watching the mouse without interfering with the X server. I don't think we can afford to change what the X server sees, and I don't like the way the Linux folks did it (their mouse daemon is basically a pipe). > Soren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[