Kudzu mouse detect

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 20:55:41 UTC 2003


Sean Craig (seanc at tech-access.com) said: 
> Why (technically) will the probe 'not work'? 

PS/2 devices have undefined and chipset-specific behavior when
opened by multiple programs simultaneously. If run under X,
there's a very good chance that X has the device open; then
the results will be unreliable, and it can disrupt the mouse
use under XFree86 as well.

Bill





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