Messages in this thread | | | From | jbradford@dial ... | Subject | Re: 2.5.X breaks PS/2 mouse | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:15:45 +0100 (BST) |
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Finally re-assembled the laptop :-)
> > I didn't, but I've compiled a new kernel with it in. Unfortunately, > > it doesn't seem to do anything useful :-(. > > > > cat /dev/input/eventX | hexdump > > > > returns nothing, not even for keyboard events, which makes me think > > I've gone wrong somewhere :-/ > > Have you tried all of them (0, 1, 2 ...)? Btw, you can compile evbug in > also.
Whoops, me being silly again, I actually created a single device node called /dev/input/eventX instead of event1, event2, etc. :-)
> > mouse > > > > Left button - 09 00 00 08 00 00 > > Right button - 0a 00 00 08 00 00 > > > > trackball > > > > Left button - 01 00 00 00 00 00 > > Right button - 02 00 00 00 00 00 > > Hmm, interesting ... let's see what that means ... > > Indeed the 0x08 byte indicates the beginning of a packet. The driver > synchronizes on that, and when it's missing, it ignores the packets. > Thus, it ignores all the packets from the trackball. > > This patch should fix that:
It does. Cool!
GPM and X work perfectly.
Cheers!
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