usb mouse in 2.2.10

usb mouse in 2.2.10

[Robert Brose]

Thanks for those that helped with the usb keyboard and 2.2.10. Now that the
keyboard is working
on the iMac, I've got one observation and a question.

1) The keyboard response is somewhat odd. If I type "cd /anything" at the
prompt, it fairly
regularly does cdcd /anything on the echo. It's hard to pin down because it
isn't
completely consistent. I'm guessing an odd debounce problem.. It seems to only
happen on
a few characters. The same machine works fine with 2.2.5.

2) The mouse is inoperative in X. The links are...
[bob@imac /dev]$ ls -l *mouse*
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      10,  10 Apr 30 10:54 adbmouse
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Jun 16 12:08 mouse -> usbmouse
crw-rw-r--   1 root     root      10,   6 May  5  1998 sunmouse
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Jun 16 11:45 usbmouse -> hidbp-mse-0

The X pointer section..
Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "BusMouse"
    Device      "/dev/mouse"

If I cat /dev/mouse and move it I get moving lines of junk as I would expect.
The bus mouse
protocol looks suspicious but it works in 2.2.5 and I haven't found anything to
replace it with
yet.

Bob
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Re: usb mouse in 2.2.10

[Brad Midgley]

> Protocol    "BusMouse"

starting with 2.2.10 it should be "IMPS/2"

Brad
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Re: usb mouse in 2.2.10

[Paul Mackerras]

Robert Brose <bob@jriver.com> wrote:

> 1) The keyboard response is somewhat odd. If I type "cd /anything" at the
> prompt, it fairly
> regularly does cdcd /anything on the echo. It's hard to pin down because it

This is a problem in the USB keyboard driver, where it doesn't handle
the `key rollover error' keycode correctly.  The iMac keyboard gives
this keycode if you press more than 2 keys (other than modifiers) at
once.

> If I cat /dev/mouse and move it I get moving lines of junk as I would expect.
> The bus mouse
> protocol looks suspicious but it works in 2.2.5 and I haven't found anything to
> replace it with
> yet.

Use "IMPS/2" (or "imps2" for gpm).

Paul.

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Re: usb mouse in 2.2.10

[Robert E. Brose II]

User Paul Mackerras says:
> Robert Brose <bob@jriver.com> wrote:
> 
> > 1) The keyboard response is somewhat odd. If I type "cd /anything" at the
> > prompt, it fairly
> > regularly does cdcd /anything on the echo. It's hard to pin down because it
> 
> This is a problem in the USB keyboard driver, where it doesn't handle
> the `key rollover error' keycode correctly.  The iMac keyboard gives
> this keycode if you press more than 2 keys (other than modifiers) at
> once.

Aha, I am definitely a N-Key rollover person!
 
> > If I cat /dev/mouse and move it I get moving lines of junk as I would expect.
> > The bus mouse
> > protocol looks suspicious but it works in 2.2.5 and I haven't found anything to
> > replace it with
> > yet.
> 
> Use "IMPS/2" (or "imps2" for gpm).

Works well but if I pick up a window and move it around quickly a lot I
can make the mouse cursor go bye-bye.

Bob

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