Re: mousedev patch

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> I don't like the way as well. I don't like having mousedev at all. But
> so far it was very useful. Perhaps we could somehow tell mousedev about
> the screen resolution when we're not in X? That would make it work
> nicely in console mode with eg. GPM.

This will not be easy. Their is also the case with embedded systems that
don't use a VT console. I run my ipaq using ruby only with a serial
console. 
 
> I agree that we should avoid oopses and thus the patch is OK, but still
> I think all drivers should provide min and max for the absolute axes.

I have to agree here. For the ipaq I basically read raw data from the
hardware to see what the maximum and minimum values reported back. For the
ipaq it is 1024x768 but yet the SA1100 framebuffer is at 240x320.