From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PS2 mouse changes for 2.6
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:43:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200312291843.44656.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FF033AF.2080905@myrealbox.com>
On Monday 29 December 2003 09:01 am, walt wrote:
> I get good results from last night's PS2 mouse patches. My one
> problem machine now works perfectly again without the psmouse_noext
> parameter I've been using for several months.
>
> Two observations:
>
> I see no deprecation warnings when starting the kernel with
> psmouse_noext, which I was expecting to see.
It is emitted with KERN_WARNING severity and is not necessary seen on
the console. Check you dmesg.
>
> The mouse is announced as a 'generic wheel mouse', but it is
> really a Kensington Orbit trackball. Unfortunately I don't
> have a wheel mouse to test with, so I can't comment there.
>
The kernel does not really distinguish between different hardware
manufacturers. It tries to recognize Synaptics, Logitech and Genius, but
it relies on mouse responses to various PS/2 protocol probes. Anything
that responds to IntelliMouse (imps) protocol probes but does not respond
to ImtelliMouse Explorer (exps) probes gets labelled as "Generic Wheel
Mouse".
Dmitry
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2003-12-29 14:01 PS2 mouse changes for 2.6 walt
2003-12-29 23:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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2003-12-30 0:51 ` walt
2003-12-30 4:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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