On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 01:14:08PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 03:49, Jim Paris wrote: > > > > I think this is a problem with the Debian-generated configuration. > > For /dev/input/mice, it specifies SendCoreEvents _and_ also > > includes it in the ServerLayout as an InputDevice. Commenting > > out the SendCoreEvents line fixes the problem and each event > > is only received once. > > What if you tell it to use /dev/input/mice in the first place? (it > didn't include PS/2 mice with 2.4 kernels, the idea of adding it is to > make hot plugging USB mice work automagically) As I understand it, a device shouldn't send core events if it's not in the server's current layout. I had heard rumors that Linux kernel 2.6 demultiplexes PS/2 mouse devices into /dev/input/mice, and not just USB mouse devices as 2.4 does. It would be useful if someone could let me know which mouse devices Linux 2.6 demuxes in this way. The debconf/dexconf logic can then be updated to behave differently when kernel 2.6 is used. Of course, this can get to be a headache when people switch between 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, leaving them with less-than-optimal XFree86 server configurations. Sigh. -- G. Branden Robinson | I suspect Linus wrote that in a Debian GNU/Linux | complicated way only to be able to branden@debian.org | have that comment in there. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Lars Wirzenius
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