Re: gpm & X

[Adam Majer <adamm@galacticasoftware.com>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 03:42:18PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:48:14AM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:45:42AM -0600, Adam Majer wrote:
> > > It looks to me like a bad protocol or something or bad access point.
> > > If you are using USB mouse as you indicated then you should access it
> > > at /dev/input/mice instead of /dev/psaux. And specify PS/2 protocol
> > > for both gpm and X.
> > 
> > Isnt that a devfs-only feature?  Or does USB somehow provide /dev/input?
> 
> It's independent of devfs.  This is the interface to the new input layer
> and USB HID devices are only exported through that (there is no other
> way to get at a USB mouse, at least in kernel 2.4).

Many mobos have Legacy USB support or more like USB->Legacy so that mice would be seen as PS/2 but that creates problems in many OSs. Hence
it is _much_ better to dissable legacy USB in BIOS.