Re: USB mouse

[Sven LUTHER <luther@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:30:41PM +0300, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:03:19PM +0200, Michel D?nzer wanted to say the following:
> > Hadess wrote:
> > 
> > > > I'm using 2.2.15 (yes, I know about the vulnerability ;), and I can
> > > > successfully load the usb-ohci, mouse and usbcore modules. But neither
> > > > gpm nor XFree86 work with /dev/usbmouse, protocol IMPS/2 (also tried mman
> > > > in gpm, no dice).
> > > 
> > > Here are a few things you can try:
> > > - use hid module instead of mouse module
> > 
> > Will try that.
> > 
> > 
> > > - try "cat /dev/usbmouse" and move the mouse, see if any output
> > 
> > I redirected that to a file which was about 2 megs after a few seconds...
> > 'file' said it was ASCII text, and the first few pages in 'more' were empty.
> > 
> > Does that imply anything?
> 
> You should probably do
> 
> 	cat < /dev/usbmouse
> 
> it should print nice garbage stream to the terminal when you move the mouse,
> and it should stop if you dont move it. Example here (dont we all just love
> screenshots 8)
> 
> ÿüý
> 
> 
> 8üþ8ûþ8øý8ôü8ôú8õù8óù8ùü8÷ù8ýú8ýú(û(û8þü8þÿÿþþý8üÿ8øþ8öý8õþ8ùý8óú8øú8÷ù8úù8ûû8þúÿ8ÿÿûúùûúúùù÷ø8ûÿ8úÿü8üÿ8üÿ8ýþ8þÿ8ýþþ8ÿÿ(ÿ(ÿ(ÿÿ(ÿ(ÿ8ÿÿÿ(ÿ8þÿ(ÿ8ÿþ(þ8ÿý8ÿý8ÿþ8ÿû8ÿû(ü(ü(ý(ü(ü(ý(þ(û(ü(ý(
> ÿÿþýþýþÿÿ(ÿ(ÿ
> 
> It will mess up your terminal if you do it for a long time, typing "reset"
> helps if your characters get garbled.

or echo ^V ^O

friendly,

Sven LUTHER