evdev instead of ExplorerPS/2

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Tue Sep 6 23:07:41 CDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 15:54 +0200, MadMan2k wrote:
> I think it would be better to use evdev in the cases where ExplorerPS/2 
> is used right now,
> because ExplorerPS/2 is insufficient for new mice.
> For example pressing the scrollbutton(button 4) on a MX510 is sending 
> button 6(back-button) on release
> also the window switcher(button 8) is not supported.
> 
> Since the MX5?? series are quite popular this fix should probably get 
> some attention.

There are absolutely no plans to use evdev by default right now.




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