From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262100AbVFHFRY (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 01:17:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262101AbVFHFRX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 01:17:23 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:6828 "EHLO suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262100AbVFHFRR (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2005 01:17:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 07:17:23 +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: <20050608051723.GA1650@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> <20050607053943.GA1778@ucw.cz> <42A67A2B.50600@freemail.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <42A67A2B.50600@freemail.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:55:07AM +0200, Zoltan Boszormenyi wrote: > Vojtech Pavlik írta: > >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. > > Thanks for the enlightenment, now I have to use /dev/input/mouse2 and > mouse3 for the two X servers. > > BTW, where is it documented? Was it this changeset? > > > input: Fix keyboard scrollwheel support, add horizontal > wheel support, and enable both by default. > > Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik Yes, it was this one, and it'll be disabled again for 2.6.12, since it causes headaches like yours. It wasn't documented, because the mouse# numbers were never considered to be stable (they change if you plug/unplug mice), and thus I didn't expect anyone using them without having udev make them stable. My wrong. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR