Jonathan Conrad (fnordly)'s status on Sunday, 21-Aug-11 20:04:52 UTC
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@starshine You did the right thing back then with that, but alternative pointing devices or something like a GPS to plug into the USB port are necessarily very simple. The complex part is the interaction between the application software (X or the cartographic program for my GPS) and the kernel. The specification is both vague and strict. Mainly, Microsoft or Apple makes a few dollars off of support while the kernel hackers and application programmers catch up. I took about a week for me to etch out a character device driver and logger for my GPS. It mapped many miles. I used the software that came with the $100 device for a whole half of an hour, before it stopped working, and I uninstalled it.
