Re: Mousedev or hiddev problem, was: Re: USB mice do not work on 2.6.12-rc5-git9, -rc5-mm1, -rc5-mm2

Zoltan Boszormenyi
2005-06-08T04:39:09Z

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?

<vojtech@suse.cz>
input: Fix keyboard scrollwheel support, add horizontal
wheel support, and enable both by default.

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>