Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 18:29:23 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Danny Dulai <nirva@ishiboo.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com>, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch Message-ID: <199806220129.SAA02633@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jun 1998 20:29:21 EDT." <19980621202921.57824@bleep.ishiboo.com>
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> Right now, there is no way I can get the remote output that moused gives > to /var/run/MouseRemote, and still run other mice on moused, AND > having the remote's mouse functions disabled. > > The mouse remote's rf receiver gets far too much interference and causes > my mouse pointer to jump around and buttons to be pressed randomly. The > remote is uesless without turning off the mouse support. > > To solve this problem either add an option to moused to turn off mouse > messages (and rename moused to something better), or use the model I > suggested using remoted that splits mouse and remote events. > > Randall has expierenced the problems I'm getting, and I assume most > others that have this remote do too. This is not a feature that '[isnt] > worth the effort', its a mandatory feature for functionality. Drivers should, as a general rule, cater to hardware that is working correctly. If you have a decent general-purpose heuristic that helps with a given failure mode, that's one thing, but attempting to kluge around hardware that is failing in a completely random fashion is pointless. If you want the split, we can talk about the modular architecture I originally proposed, presuming of course that you're interested in discussing or implementing it. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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