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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? > > <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> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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