From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261743AbVFGFkM (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 01:40:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261753AbVFGFkL (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 01:40:11 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:35754 "EHLO suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261743AbVFGFji (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2005 01:39:38 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 07:39:43 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Zoltan Boszormenyi Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 Message-ID: <20050607053943.GA1778@ucw.cz> References: <42A2A0B2.7020003@freemail.hu> <42A2A657.9060803@freemail.hu> <20050605001001.3e441076.akpm@osdl.org> <42A2BC4B.5060605@freemail.hu> <42A2CF27.8000806@freemail.hu> <42A3176F.9030307@freemail.hu> <42A4B328.1010400@freemail.hu> <42A4C85F.2040509@freemail.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <42A4C85F.2040509@freemail.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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