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Re: Input team resurrection



Stephane Peter wrote:

>>>What Linux need is a universal set of drivers for
>>>mice/joysticks/(keyboards?). I

>> Well, as IIRC Xavier said some time ago: "GGI does [...] input too."
>> Amd it does it well. KGI (once it's stabel enough) + LibGII make for a
>> combo you can't easily surpass.
>
>But that does not solve the problem we have here. As far as I know, libGII is
>only a library and I'm talking about a standalone process that would provide a
>driver API that could be used by any application (probably together with a
>small stub library). Also GII is not really usable yet from what I've heard.

But it's surely better to extend libgii & build some app around it than to
rewrite everything from scratch.

>I don't think moving mouse driver code to the kernel is really necesary, we

Yup, but if your system should be capable of handling multiheaded setups
you need some controlling code in the kernel.


	Christian

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