Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 11:46:08 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com> Cc: roell@blah.a.isar.de, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The F_SETOWN problem.. Message-ID: <199604081846.LAA02521@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Apr 1996 16:05:20 PDT." <199604072305.QAA19534@ref.tfs.com>
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Wow protocol independent mouse event handling and a more efficient mouse event handling not too say that is a lot easier to maintain the different mouse protocols in the kernel rather than in the X server. Cheers, Amancio >>> "JULIAN Elischer" said: > [lots deleted] > > sounds like what is needed is a differnt protocol to be made available > from the various mouses.. > Under MACH all mice (serial etc al) come in through the same > device and they are translated to a common protocol.. > > if we were to do that (in conjunction with the two console authors maybe) > then we could add the following info to each mouse 'packet' > > number of following mouse events..(not yet read) > microsecond timestamp.. moment when the packet was complete. > > it would require puting a tty protocol into the approriate > tty line for serial mice, and possibly a differnt interface for > such things as ps2 mice, but it might be useful. > > julian >
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