Re: mouse: kernel 2.6.6 -> 2.6.8 ???
On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:01:11PM -0500, helices wrote:
> What broke? What changed?
>
> I have been running 2.6x kernels on this legacy PPro box for most of
> this year -- first kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686, then
> kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 -- without incident.
>
> Today, the only change I made was to install these:
>
> kernel-doc-2.6.8
> kernel-headers-2.6.8-1-686
> kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
>
> When I boot into this, the mouse cursor moves; but, is totally insane ;<
>
> It gravitates to the left side of the screen, near randomly opens menus,
> and randomly selects menu items, and moves icons to different locations
> on the screen -- basically, there is no chance to function normally in
> KDE v3.2x.
>
> I have disabled gpm -- no change.
>
> # grep mouse /etc/modules
> mousedev
> psmouse
>
> .From /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Configured Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Generic Mouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
> # Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> Which brings up another question: How do I get a /dev/input/ ???
>
> This box has been upgraded since Slink, and it has *no* /dev/input/ ;<
~ %% ls /dev/input -l
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 64 Mar 14 2002 event0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 65 Mar 14 2002 event1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 66 Mar 14 2002 event2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 67 Mar 14 2002 event3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 0 Mar 14 2002 js0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 1 Mar 14 2002 js1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 2 Mar 14 2002 js2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 3 Mar 14 2002 js3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 63 Mar 14 2002 mice
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 32 Mar 14 2002 mouse0
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 33 Mar 14 2002 mouse1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 34 Mar 14 2002 mouse2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 13, 35 Mar 14 2002 mouse3
~ %%
mknod away.
> Anyway, what ought I to check? I have googled, and scoured debian
> archives. Mine is not any of the slew of mouse problems that I have
> found there. Reverting to kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 -- the mouse is
> working as expected.
>
> What do you think?
If you need 2.6.8-1 and need X, comment out both pointers, start X with
the -allowMouseOpenFail option, then hit Shift-NumLock and use
MouseKeys.
12346789 - directions
5 - click
0 - press
. - release
/*- - change button
all on numkeypad
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