From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse•cz>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel•crashing.org>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse•cz>,
Till Straumann <Till.Straumann@TU-Berlin•de>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org, George Staikos <staikos@kde•org>
Subject: Re: [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 22:29:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030125222902.A18919@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043529955.3683.41.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr>; from benh@kernel.crashing.org on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:25:56PM +0100
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:25:56PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > Well... the problem happpens in console as well, and with other
> > > > non-X apps like MacOnLinux. Some Apple PowerBooks have over-sensitive
> > > > trackpad. Apple themselves implement a similar mecanism in the kernel
> > > > driver of OS X.
> > >
> > > Mine is one of those machines. I have to turn off gpm for sure, and X is
> > > quite oversensitive too (tuned it in KDE, but still this functionality would
> > > be very nice).
> >
> > How about implementing it in mousedev.c?
>
> Right, though it would need hooks in kbddev or something to know
> about keystrokes.
It could accept keyboards as an event source for this purpose. I'd like
to keep this out of the input core.
> Also, I don't like the sysctl's as those need
> allocating sysctl numbers, which are always a problem. In 2.5,
> we could have these in sysfs, though for 2.4 I'm not sure what
> to do.
I don't think you can do much better than sysctl or module parameters in 2.4.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-25 21:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-29 1:34 [patch] ignore trackpad/mouse while typing Till Straumann
2002-11-29 5:31 ` Ethan Benson
2002-12-03 1:47 ` Michel Dänzer
2002-12-03 5:03 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-25 17:47 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 19:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-25 20:58 ` George Staikos
2003-01-25 21:04 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 21:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-25 18:04 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-26 9:59 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-25 21:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2003-01-27 19:16 ` Franz Sirl
2003-01-27 19:25 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-27 21:33 ` Till Straumann
2003-01-27 21:49 ` Franz Sirl
2003-01-27 22:00 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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