Re: [MiNT] MiNT mouse device inverted Y value

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

"Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de> writes:

|> > From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
|> > Of Mario Becroft
|> > Sent: Monday, July 05, 1999 12:07 AM
|> > To: MiNT Mailing List
|> > Subject: RE: [MiNT] MiNT mouse device inverted Y value
|> >
|> >
|> > On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Julian Reschke wrote:
|> >
|> > > I think this was done to make it compatible to /dev/mouse on SunOS...
|> >
|> > 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?

Also, the IKBD is resetted when the keyboard is removed and reattached
during runtime.  For this reason Linux does the inversion in software.

Andreas.

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