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

Vojtech Pavlik
2005-06-07T05:40:12Z

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.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR