From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263077AbTKERjh (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:39:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263081AbTKERjh (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:39:37 -0500 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:65509 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263077AbTKERjg (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Nov 2003 12:39:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 18:39:07 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt , herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, Kernel Mailing List , Vojtech Pavlik Subject: Re: [MOUSE] Alias for /dev/psaux Message-ID: <20031105173907.GA27922@ucw.cz> References: <3FA91493.7060009@ntlworld.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:27:30AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Matt wrote: > > > > had excatly the same problem moving to test9-mm1, way i fixed it was to > > pass the options "psmouse_rate=60 psmouse_resolution=200" to the kernel > > at boot (these were the old defaults). > > Can you guys test passing in "psmouse_noext=1" instead? > > The thing is, the psmouse initialization in 2.4.x does _nothing_. Nada. > Zilch. Zero. And it obviously works fine. So the 2.6.x code is apparently > just _crap_. > > The extended psmouse detection code will try different things, and one > thing in particular is that the Logitech magic ID matching sets the > resolution to zero, while the IntelliMouse thing sets the rate to 80. We could save the bootup mouse settings (the mouse will tell us) and restore them after we go trough all the probing if desired. That is, if it's really really needed not to change the default mouse settings. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR