[Xorg] Dynamic mouse accelaration
Alex Deucher
agd5f at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 8 05:52:24 PDT 2004
--- Egbert Eich <eich at pdx.freedesktop.org> wrote:
> Ely Levy writes:
> > The problem would start only if those drivers use each other,
> > GPL talk about derived work.
>
> I'm not so sure about this and I really don't want to go down this
> avenue.
> We already had more license discussions here than we can handle.
>
> >
> > > Before we get into another License discussion I'd rather stay
> > > away from any GPLed driver code altogether. Besides the 2.6
> Linux
> > OK,
> > if its a descion made by the majority I accept it,
> > The other option is reimplemanting it, who volunteer to it?:)
>
> Always the one who asks? ;-)
> I can give you the specs for synaptics.
>
> >
> > > kernel contains a synaptics driver so for Linux users there is
> > > no real need to use this GPLed X driver.
> >
> > I don't think Xorg know how to use it?
> > or am I wrong?
> >
>
> We can use it as it emulates a an explorer ps/2 mouse. We don't have
> a driver for natively interfacing to the kernel drivers yet. However
> this interface would be generic, too. Your configuration would have
> to be
> done in the driver itself.
A while back (pre-xorg split) someone wrote an a patch to natively
support linux evdev. you can find it in the xfree86 devel archives.
Perhaps that's worth resurrecting.
Alex
>
> Egbert.
>
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