From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <012301bfec6a$b5474aa0$1a6a1504@strayer.edu> From: "Robert Thompson" To: "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" , References: <20000712231905.23171@192.168.1.10> <20000712233159.26202@192.168.1.10> Subject: Re: trackpad Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 21:35:31 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > What I wrote can be a bit confusing. I meant: > > - The new layer will create new devices that mix all mice (including > trackpad) and route them to the new /dev/input/mice device. Of course, > you need to create this device (with mknod) and eventually link /dev/ > mouse, /dev/adbmouse and /dev/usbmouse (yes, all 3 of them) to /dev/ > input/mice. There are some explanation on how to do that on my page. > Those will output imps2 protocol. > Right, did that, and usbmice work fine. No, I made sure /dev/adbmouse still had it's old major and minor, it is not a symlink to /dev/input/mice. > - The latest kernel (pre10-ben1) will keep the old /dev/adbmouse device > alive. That means that if you don't set /dev/adbmouse to point to the new > /dev/input/mice but instead keep it to it's old major/minor, you'll still > get a busmouse-like device on /dev/adbmouse > In theory, but it isn't working that way. Or, at least, *something* isn't working... I'm not lying here, the trackpad really isn't working :) > - I also added this new "adb_xpmac_compat" kernel command line option > (at least until Xpmac is fixed). With this, the driver will, by default, > enable sending of ADB mouse moves as fake keycodes to the console, like > MkLinux, in a way compatible with Xpmac. The new driver won't do it any > more unless you use that option or your do > > echo "1" >/proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/adb_mouse_sends_keycodes > I tried both using the kernel command line and/or setting this /proc flag, but nothing works, in any combination. Sorry to seem... I don't know, annoying (if I do) but this is a rather important bug to fix, I'd say... Later, Robbie Thompson ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/