USB mouse issues - SOLVED

[agent_jdh]

I've had this problem for a while, and it was raised on LKML a while back but not resolved. I was going to post there about it but thought I'd check here first.

On newer 2.6 series kernels (e.g. running 2.6.8.1-ck5 here, I have no idea when this bug has crept in though, maybe earlier 2.6 kernels work OK), at the console (the mouse is fine in X) either with/without gpm running, pressing the buttons on my mouse echoes characters to the screen-

Left click - Q
Right click - W
Middle click - E
Thumb - R

Which makes copy/paste a PITA.

Mouse is a Logitech MouseMan USB cordless/optical.

I'm pretty sure this is kernel 2.6 related as I'm seeing the same on Debian as well, and with the 2004.2 LiveCD I just checked w/ kernel 2.4.26 (or it might have been 27) the mouse works fine with the same gpm setup.

Has anyone else seen this behaviour, and know of a fix?

Almost forgot, I added PS/2 support to the kernel to see if that helped (I just had the USB/HID stuff in), but it didn't fix it.

EDIT: Just had a thought, I'd compiled the USB stuff as modules and the PS/2 driver straight in, maybe it has to do with the driver loading sequence, so I'll compile the PS2 driver as a module and play around with that just to check, but I know the LiveCD has the PS/2 driver in the kernel and the USB/HID stuff as modules anyway.

EDIT #2: Tried various module loading sequences, with no joy. I'll get on to the LKML about this though.
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[agent_jdh]

This is EDIT #3

Got it working.

I found a patch for this on the kernel bugzilla ... seems this has been around for some while but it has not made it into the kernel ... I'll email Vojtech about it.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=2576&action=view
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