Am Donnerstag, 27. September 2007 17:23:42 schrieb Vitaliy Margolen:
Stefan Dösinger wrote:
- Multiple Mice. If there are 2 mouse devices, the X server manages them
and combines them to one core pointer. These configurations are pretty common, for example on laptops with touchpad + usb mouse.
This is true, each mouse will have it's own device. However I have never seen a single person who used 2 or more mice while playing games <g>
I do
That's the great thing about laptops, at least when playing Battlefield 1942. You can keep an aircraft controlled with one hand, but for serious fighting you need the real mouse. Imagine a LAN Party, running bf1942, some pizza next to you. With the thumb on the touchpad and the WASD keys, you can take off with a plane and steer to the battle, while the right hand is free to grab a glass or some pizza. Yes, it makes the keyboard and mouse oily and there's a risk to poor liquid over the laptop, but it works with the current dinput code :-)
Not true. That's what so great about evdev driver - it's unified. Everything is handled by the kernel, and we get common interface to things like axis movement and buttons. I have tested this with USB and PS/2 mouse
- works properly in each case.
Should all mouse types create a event device node? Maybe I've done something wrong on my new laptop. On the old laptop, the touchpad had such a node, on the new one it doesn't.