From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265461AbTL2Xn5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:43:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265478AbTL2Xn5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:43:57 -0500 Received: from smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.170.81]:42852 "HELO smtp811.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265461AbTL2Xnx (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:43:53 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: walt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PS2 mouse changes for 2.6 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 18:43:44 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FF033AF.2080905@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <3FF033AF.2080905@myrealbox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312291843.44656.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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