Re: Problem with PS/2 mouse driver in XFree86 4.3.0

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:32:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Daniel Flickinger wrote:

>     I had the same problem starting about a year ago when I
>     finally gave up and upgraded to X4. The problem appears
>     to be that the X4 driver does not disable the console
>     mouse and the two of them fight over the interrupts.

Well yeah moused and X can't both use the mouse at once. You should get a
'device busy' error.  If you want to use moused then have X gets its
events from moused (/dev/sysmouse) and not psm0.

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Received on Sun Aug 10 2003 - 13:32:29 UTC

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