Re: Optical Dell Mouse - seems standard doesn't work on xorg

2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com>

Thomas Douillard wrote:

2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com <mailto:debian.dev.list@gmail.com>>

Thomas Douillard wrote:

Seems not to, and nothing happens if I "cat /dev/input/mice"
and move the mouse. It is a usb mouse.

I tried "gpm -m /dev/input/mice".
2009/10/27 Aioanei Rares <debian.dev.list@gmail.com
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Thomas Douillard wrote:

Hi, I've got a problem since an upgrade (I don't kwon since
when unfortunately), my standard optical wheel mouse don't
work anymore on X, on an debian SID

I don't know who I must blame (hal, udev, the kernel, xorg
...) so I can't post a bugreport on the good package. I'll
attach some logfiles, if anyone can help me or suggest
a way
to proceed ...

I also filed a udevadm test, if it can help ...

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Thomas

Thomas, does it work in console if you enable gpm?

Just to be sure, did you try to plug it in another USB port? And
when I said console, I meant enable gpm to start at boot, reboot,
press alt+ctrl+Fx and see if it moves.

Yep, I did.

I also purged and reinstalled gpm, rebooted, checked the mouse in console, just to be sure also, it did not worked as expected (since cat /dev/input/mice don't do anything, and it is the device used by gpm by default)

I can add that I'm quite sure it is related to the model of the mouse : I tried with an identical mouse, it did'nt work, with a microsoft one therer was no problems.

It may be related with a similar issue on ubuntu : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/378818 but may not : in this issue the keyboard (same model as me I think) did not work also, while mine works. The workaround I found on his computer to solve the problem on his computer did not work on mine : I added a mouse and keyboard section as old times in the xorg.conf file.

Thomas

Well, it's not only a Xorg problem as long as you see it in the console. AFAICS from the Ubuntu bug, looks like a kernel problem, but since their kernel is different from ours, you might wanna try an (preferably older) kernel and if that works, report a bug.