Subject: Serial Mouse buttons
To: None <tech-x11@netbsd.org>
From: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
List: tech-x11
Date: 06/11/2001 12:44:16
Hello,
This may be the wrong list but how does X11 know when a serial mouse
button has been pressed? I would assume that there is a protocol handled
in XFree86 (I'm using port-i386) for talking to a serial mouse.
Specifically, I'm looking for the code in xsrc.tgz that talks to the
/dev/tty?? port to which the mouse is connected and sends the event up to
the higher layers of X11.
Why am I looking for this you might ask. Well, I'm looking to find a
way to reboot a headless/keyboardless server and a serial mouse button
press might just be the easiest way to do it. Since Xfree86 connects to
serial mice using /dev/tty?? the understanding of the serial mouse protocol
seems like it would be in XFree, not a kernel driver.
Thanks in advance...
PS
Please respond to my e-mail address since I'm not on this list. Thanks
again.
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