Re: FYI PS/2 Mouse problems -- userland issue

[Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl]

    From: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>

    On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Stephen Satchell wrote:

    > This MAY be a kernel issue depending on where I locate the mouse
    > initialization code.  If it is in the kernel, then there will need
    > to be a patch to allow the mouse to be re-initialized into the mode
    > everyone expects.

[Funny - we just discussed this last week.]

    The kernel has nothing to do with reinitializing the mouse: X has to do
    that.

[Indeed. Or gpm.]

     I plan to submit a
    patch that replaces much of the existing pc keyboard/mouse code with state
    machine driven code that doesn't block interrupts out for long periods of
    time, as well as fixing a few of the lockup issues the current driver has.

Have you written the patch already?
There are interesting difficulties here.

Andries