From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anssi Hannula Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: USB Mouse unhappy Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:56:55 +0200 Message-ID: <494E20F7.7050106@gmail.com> References: <20081220221253.e09b1b1f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:40484 "EHLO kirsi1.inet.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750918AbYLUK5E (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Dec 2008 05:57:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Parag Warudkar Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Parag Warudkar wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 1:12 AM, Andrew Morton > wrote: >> You're sure that 2.6.28-rc8 was OK? > > Nope - not sure about 28-rc8. I meant to say some previous 28-rc's > that I tested worked fine - can't recall which ones. it is likely I > missed testing .28-rc8. > >> 2.6.28-rc9 had only a small number of changes. Nothing I can see in >> input or HID. A few USB changes, but pretty specific ones - >> unusual_devs entries and such. >> >> Maybe your mouse has died? Did you retest with an older kernel? >> > I did - rebooting into 2.6.27 (original distro kernel) makes it work again. This sounds to me like 'usbmouse' gets used instead of 'usbhid' on 2.6.28-rc9. Many users have reported only vertical movement with 'usbmouse'. Better check the kernel configuration, if you had usbmouse disabled in 2.6.27, then disable it with 2.6.28-rc9 as well. -- Anssi Hannula