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



Thomas Douillard wrote:

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

    Thomas Douillard wrote:

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

                      --
                      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.


I tried that just after the upgrade, and the symptoms where the same with the pre-upgrade kernel version at the time, so I suspect it's not really a kernel problem ... plus the dmeg's correctly recognize a HID device, as the dmesg attatched to my first mail shows ... I suspect bug in udev rules or a bug in hal, but since I don't really know how all this work ... I may post a bug in the udev package for a start ...

PS : I forgot to reply to the list, I copy paste the discussion, sorry for that ...
Would you please post the exact kernel versions you are using?


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