Re: 2.5.X breaks PS/2 mouse

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:15:45PM +0100, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
> Finally re-assembled the laptop :-)
> 
> > > I didn't, but I've compiled a new kernel with it in.  Unfortunately,
> > > it doesn't seem to do anything useful :-(.
> > > 
> > > cat /dev/input/eventX | hexdump
> > > 
> > > returns nothing, not even for keyboard events, which makes me think
> > > I've gone wrong somewhere :-/
> > 
> > Have you tried all of them (0, 1, 2 ...)? Btw, you can compile evbug in
> > also.
> 
> Whoops, me being silly again, I actually created a single device node
> called /dev/input/eventX instead of event1, event2, etc.  :-)
> 
> > > mouse
> > > 
> > >  Left button - 09 00 00 08 00 00
> > > Right button - 0a 00 00 08 00 00
> > > 
> > > trackball
> > > 
> > >  Left button - 01 00 00 00 00 00
> > > Right button - 02 00 00 00 00 00
> > 
> > Hmm, interesting ... let's see what that means ...
> > 
> > Indeed the 0x08 byte indicates the beginning of a packet. The driver
> > synchronizes on that, and when it's missing, it ignores the packets.
> > Thus, it ignores all the packets from the trackball.
> > 
> > This patch should fix that:
> 
> It does.  Cool!
> 
> GPM and X work perfectly.
> 
> Cheers!

And yet another case closed. :)

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs