Bug#346460: xserver-xorg: evdev driver broken for mice on powerpc

[Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>]

Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2
Severity: normal

The new evdev driver doesn't work for mice on powerpc (same config
works on x86).  I've tried to use the following section:

,----
| Section "InputDevice"
|         Identifier      "MX1000"
|         Driver          "evdev"
|         Option          "CorePointer"
|         Option          "Protocol"              "evdev"
|         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mx1000"
|         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
| EndSection
`----

where /dev/input/mx1000 is a event device renamed by this udev rule:

,----
| ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="input", SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Logitech", SYSFS{product}=="USB Receiver", NAME="input/mx1000"
`----

As said, this works fine on x86 but on powerpc X dies with:

,----
| (**) Option "CorePointer"
| (**) MX1000: Core Pointer
| (**) MX1000: Device: "/dev/input/mx1000"
| (WW) MX1000: Don't know how to use device
| (EE) PreInit failed for input device "MX1000"
| (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
| (WW) No core pointer registered
`----


6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 worked fine with the old evdev driver and the
configuration described at
http://blog.blackdown.de/2005/04/03/logitech-mx1000-configuration/


        Juergen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.4.67         Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                     2.3.5-11       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.0.2-6      GCC support library
ii  libxau6                   6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 X Authentication library
ii  libxdmcp6                 6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 X Display Manager Control Protocol
ii  xserver-common            6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 files and utilities common to all 
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.3-9      compression library - runtime

Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends:
ii  discover1                 1.7.17         hardware identification system
ii  laptop-detect             0.12.1         attempt to detect a laptop
ii  mdetect                   0.5.2.1        mouse device autodetection tool
ii  xlibs                     6.9.0.dfsg.1-2 X Window System client libraries m
ii  xresprobe                 0.4.18-1       X Resolution Probe

-- 
Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team
http://blog.blackdown.de/