From: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
To: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Do not use synaptics extensions by default
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 21:47:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6un08v5vd7.fsf@zork.zork.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2u133qyj7.fsf@p4.localdomain> (Peter Osterlund's message of "10 Jan 2004 22:33:32 +0100")
Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> writes:
> Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> writes:
>
>> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> writes:
>>
>> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 08:18:22PM +0000, Sean Neakums wrote:
>> >
>> >> Will this also result in the passthough port not being enabled?
>> >> (I'd like to disable it.)
>> >
>> > It depends on the touchpad firmware. Most leave it enabled.
>> > In this mode we don't have any control over the passthrough port.
>>
>> I notice that the passthrough appears as an extra device (mouse1 on my
>> system). Is there a way to disable devices from userspace?
>
> You can write a program that grabs the event device for exclusive
> access and then just ignores all events, like this:
That works great. Thank you!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-10 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-10 17:59 Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 18:52 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 19:28 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-10 19:40 ` Marcel J.E. Mol
2004-01-10 19:46 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 20:29 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-01-10 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 19:56 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:10 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 20:15 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 23:52 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-11 8:13 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 19:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-10 19:55 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:18 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 20:23 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-10 20:49 ` Sean Neakums
2004-01-10 21:33 ` Peter Osterlund
2004-01-10 21:47 ` Sean Neakums [this message]
2004-01-10 23:42 ` Dax Kelson
2004-01-11 8:12 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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