RE: [MiNT] MiNT mouse device inverted Y value

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 3:40 PM
> Cc: MiNT List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNT mouse device inverted Y value
>
>
> > > I happened to be looking at the source code for the MiNT
> mouse device and
> > > observed that the Y delta value gets inverted.
> >
> > I think this was done to make it compatible to /dev/mouse on SunOS...
>
> One question remains:  will anyone ever port a usable X package?
> If not, then there is hardly any point in copying SUN or whatever
> practices just for the sake of doing it; we might as well retain
> built-in TOS routines, until some Unix terminal with mouse support
> is ported to MiNT (i.e. in vcons or in x-term version of toswinII).

In which case /dev/mouse should be taken out of the kernel and moved into an
XDD in case somebody needs it...