From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Zoltan Boszormenyi <zboszor@freemail.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mousedev or hiddev problem, was: Re: USB mice do not work on 2.6.12-rc5-git9, -rc5-mm1, -rc5-mm2
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 07:39:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050607053943.GA1778@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A4C85F.2040509@freemail.hu>
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 12:04:15AM +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Zoltan Boszormenyi írta:
> >All the -bk7+ kernels I tried produced the same strange bug
> >on my system: after gpm started I was able to move the
> >pointer on the screen but when X started up, it's pointer froze.
>
> it turned out that there is nothing wrong with USB on my system.
>
> But someone broke the /dev/input/mouseX <-> USB mouse interaction
> in 2.6.11-bk7 and my two-headed system with two X servers were
> manually set up to use the distinct mouse devices so the two heads
> do not interfere.
>
> No wonder gpm works, it reads /dev/input/mice. Starting only
> one X and using /dev/input/mice I found no problems. Setting it
> back to /dev/input/mouse0, the mouse pointer is dead again.
>
> Someone deserves a mousebite...
Most likely it's because the keyboards are now identified as having
mouse capabilities, too, and changing the numbers. Check
/proc/bus/input/devices.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-07 5:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-05 6:50 USB mice do not work on 2.6.12-rc5-git9, -rc5-mm1, -rc5-mm2 Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-05 7:14 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-05 7:10 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-05 7:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-06-05 14:18 ` Sid Boyce
2005-06-05 14:33 ` Sid Boyce
2005-06-05 8:48 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-05 10:08 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-05 10:29 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-05 15:17 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-06 20:33 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-06 22:04 ` Mousedev or hiddev problem, was: " Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-07 5:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2005-06-08 4:55 ` Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-08 5:17 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-06-05 9:09 ` Gene Heskett
2005-06-05 9:10 ` Gene Heskett
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