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Bug#571604: keyboard broken in X server, mouseemu related?



reassign 571604 mouseemu
retitle 571604 mouseemu: kbd device never sends EV_SYN, breaks X
kthxbye

On Mon, Mar  1, 2010 at 10:40:13 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 12:07:48PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 23:01:55 +1100, David Wlazlo wrote:
> > > "Mouseemu virtual keyboard": dropping event due to full queue!
> > 
> > Your X log has a lot of such messages.  Do things work better if you
> > disable/uninstall mouseemu?
> > 
> > From a quick look at its sources, it looks like mouseemu never sends
> > EV_SYN events to the kernel for its keyboard device, and the evdev X
> > driver expects those before it sends any events to the X server.  I'm
> > not sure which is buggy here.
> 
> mouseemu.
> 
> EV_SYN marks the end of an event, so if the device never send one that's
> buggy. especially with multitouch support in the kernel now, EV_SYN is even
> more important as each event may contain multiple sub-events.
> 
Yeah, looks like it, my evdev patch didn't work anyway.

Thanks,
Julien

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