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NeddySeagoon
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 Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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/dev/input/mice is all the events that arrive on /dev/input/mouseX where X is a digit.
This method of enumerating poiting devices does not cater for hot plugging unless you can use the same driver for *all* pointers and have Xog only deal with /dev/input/mice
You can use /dev/input/mouse0 and so on but when a device is unplugged and reconnected it gets a new /dev node and Xorg no longer sees it.
So, its rock, hard place and hal.
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon,
there is a mouse device present which seems not to be associated with OPs USB mouse. In any case, it does not work. Have you seen something like this before? |
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NeddySeagoon
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Jaglover,
Only in two circumstances.
A mouse was unplugged then reconnected - the old /dev/input/mice remains
The protocol is incorrect. In this case Xorg won't read it but cat will.
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Sysa
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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| indietrash wrote: | idk. I don't use that. I use the keyboard when I'm in vt, lol. I have no configurations in BIOS. mouse works in Windows 7.
are you saying I should try emerging x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and set driver to evdev instead of mouse? |
No, you should to add the following parameters into /etc/make.conf:
| Code: | | INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" |
and update your world:
| Code: | | emerge --with-bdeps=y -uDN world |
BTW: the command I advised you before
| Code: | | emerge -1 $(qlist -IC x11-dr) |
rebuild x11-drivers to sure that they are definitely compatible with the current x-server build.
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Jaglover
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| Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| indietrash wrote: | | are you saying I should try emerging x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and set driver to evdev instead of mouse? |
No, X works fine in my system without evdev. |
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indietrash
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| Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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hi. I just changed the mouse. now it works. the mouse had bad wires. now it doesn't even work in Windows. so I tried another mouse I found. and it works. thus I guess the mouse was the problem, not Gentoo.
I am however expecting a World of Warcraft mouse in the mail, so expect a thread on that one!  |
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