Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

The driver grabs tochpad with EVIOCGRAB ioctl to prevent input events
from bveing delivered to X through /dev/input/mice which is still in
whidespread use. That's why evtest does not work. We could as Peter
(CCed) to implement an option to turn off grabbing so users who don't
use mousedev multiplexor can use evtest and other commands.

What should people be using instead of /dev/input/mice ?

And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g.
mouse1 became mouse2 for many people?