Re: Kernel 2.6.2, XFree86 and /dev/psaux issue

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org> wrote:
> [Joerg Morbitzer]
>> The /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 that comes with the Debian include
>> /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice ! But nearly all the administrators I
>> know adjust and configure XF86Config-4 manually - and will probably
>> fail like I did when upgrading to Kernel-2.6.2 due to having
>> /dev/psaux only in their configs.  I assume Herbert Xu might get tons
>> of bug reports due to this behaviour.

> I could be way off base here, but if you use both /dev/psaux and
> /dev/input/mice in XF86Config-4, and they are both driven by the same
> mouse, you effectively double your mouse packets.  Does XFree86 account
> for this?
[...]

No. It effectively doubles the mouse movement (this also applies to the
wheel). This was also mentioned in the input-FAQ on linux-kernel
recently.
                  cu andreas