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 Mario Becroft
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 10:14 AM
> To: MiNT Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNT mouse device inverted Y value
>
>
> On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
> > > I did not mean that the inversion should not be done. What I
> was trying to
> > > say was that since Initmous has a feature designed precisely
> for inverting
> > > the Y axis, why not use it, instead of doing the inversion later after
> > > each mouse packet arrives.
> >
> > Because that would make VDI very sad?
>
> I was not aware that this would cause a problem with the VDI. In that case
> it is obviously inappropriate to invert the Y axis in this way, and so
> that answers my question.
>
> I noticed that after opening the mouse device the ordinary mouse pointer
> (displayed by the AES or VDI?) does not function. After closing the mouse
> device the mouse pointer comes back to normal. Is there no way to use the
> mouse device while enabling GEM to show the mouse in the usual way?

I see.

Now I have to take back my previous statement. If it's a question of running
either VDI or /dev/mouse, it obviously is irrelevant how VDI feels about
it...

Re: your question: it should be possible to write a /dev/mouse which passes
the mouse events down to the VDI. Another reason to take it ouf the kernel
and rewrite it...