On Friday 06 January 2006 23:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > Why would you want to switch to relative mode when leaving X? As far as
> > I know the only other mouse "user" out there is GPM and there are patches
> > available for it to use event device:
> >
> > http://geocities.com/dt_or/gpm/gpm.html
> >
> > Unfortunately the maintainer can't find time to merge these so they were
> > sitting there for over 2 years. FWIW Fedora patches their GPM with these.
>
> gpm among other legacy things ...
>
What other legacy things? And in that case I think manually forcing protocol
back to relative would be an option.
The thing is that Synaptics in absolute and relative mode is 2 completely
different devices with different capabilities. If you want to switch mode
you really need to kill old input device and create a brand new one.
--
Dmitry
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