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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

  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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