usb mouse in 2.2.10

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usb mouse in 2.2.10

From: Robert Brose <hidden>
Date: 1999-07-27 02:58:05

Thanks for those that helped with the usb keyboard and 2.2.10. Now that the
keyboard is working
on the iMac, I've got one observation and a question.

1) The keyboard response is somewhat odd. If I type "cd /anything" at the
prompt, it fairly
regularly does cdcd /anything on the echo. It's hard to pin down because it
isn't
completely consistent. I'm guessing an odd debounce problem.. It seems to only
happen on
a few characters. The same machine works fine with 2.2.5.

2) The mouse is inoperative in X. The links are...
[bob@imac /dev]$ ls -l *mouse*
crw-r--r--   1 root     root      10,  10 Apr 30 10:54 adbmouse
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            8 Jun 16 12:08 mouse -> usbmouse
crw-rw-r--   1 root     root      10,   6 May  5  1998 sunmouse
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           11 Jun 16 11:45 usbmouse -> hidbp-mse-0

The X pointer section..
Section "Pointer"
    Protocol    "BusMouse"
    Device      "/dev/mouse"

If I cat /dev/mouse and move it I get moving lines of junk as I would expect.
The bus mouse
protocol looks suspicious but it works in 2.2.5 and I haven't found anything to
replace it with
yet.

Bob
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Re: usb mouse in 2.2.10

From: Brad Midgley <hidden>
Date: 1999-07-27 04:27:15

Protocol    "BusMouse"
starting with 2.2.10 it should be "IMPS/2"

Brad
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Re: usb mouse in 2.2.10

From: Paul Mackerras <hidden>
Date: 1999-07-28 01:46:35

Robert Brose [off-list ref] wrote:
1) The keyboard response is somewhat odd. If I type "cd /anything" at the
prompt, it fairly
regularly does cdcd /anything on the echo. It's hard to pin down because it
This is a problem in the USB keyboard driver, where it doesn't handle
the `key rollover error' keycode correctly.  The iMac keyboard gives
this keycode if you press more than 2 keys (other than modifiers) at
once.
If I cat /dev/mouse and move it I get moving lines of junk as I would expect.
The bus mouse
protocol looks suspicious but it works in 2.2.5 and I haven't found anything to
replace it with
yet.
Use "IMPS/2" (or "imps2" for gpm).

Paul.

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Re: usb mouse in 2.2.10

From: Robert E. Brose II <hidden>
Date: 1999-07-28 21:24:15

User Paul Mackerras says:
Robert Brose [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
1) The keyboard response is somewhat odd. If I type "cd /anything" at the
prompt, it fairly
regularly does cdcd /anything on the echo. It's hard to pin down because it
This is a problem in the USB keyboard driver, where it doesn't handle
the `key rollover error' keycode correctly.  The iMac keyboard gives
this keycode if you press more than 2 keys (other than modifiers) at
once.
Aha, I am definitely a N-Key rollover person!
 
quoted
If I cat /dev/mouse and move it I get moving lines of junk as I would expect.
The bus mouse
protocol looks suspicious but it works in 2.2.5 and I haven't found anything to
replace it with
yet.
Use "IMPS/2" (or "imps2" for gpm).
Works well but if I pick up a window and move it around quickly a lot I
can make the mouse cursor go bye-bye.

Bob

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