From: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
To: James Oakley <joakley@solutioninc.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 + alps locks input in X
Date: 27 Sep 2004 22:25:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wtyf792x.fsf@telia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409271604.33993.joakley@solutioninc.com>
James Oakley <joakley@solutioninc.com> writes:
> On Monday 27 September 2004 4:27 pm, Micha Feigin wrote:
> > I tried both with mm4 with the already included alps patch and with
> > bk11 and bk13 with the patch manually applied. In both cases when
> > starting X with the alps driver input is completely dead in X, both
> > mouse and keyboard, including sysrq keys and num-lock/caps-lock.
>
> I had this problem when I accidentally used the event device for my keyboard
> instead of the touchpad. It didn't help that every alps XF86Config example
> out there points to event1, which is my keyboard.
>
> cat /proc/bus/input/devices to see which event device to use.
Or better yet, use the auto-dev feature, which should work if you have
a new enough X driver and kernel patch.
--
Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-27 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-27 19:27 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 + alps locks input in X Micha Feigin
2004-09-27 19:04 ` James Oakley
2004-09-27 20:25 ` Peter Osterlund [this message]
2004-09-28 3:46 ` 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 + alps locks input in X (alps not identifying correctly) Micha Feigin
2004-09-28 6:23 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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