Re: ImExPS/2 status

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 19:11, James E. Jennison wrote:
> Hey everyone...this is my first posting here, and I may not be going about 
> this the right way so please forgive me if I am not.  I had a question 
> regarding the status of the code for the ImExPS/2 style mice.
> 
> I currently have a Nexxtech NXX200 PS/2 Optical Wheel Mouse, running kernel 
> 2.6.13.4.  I noticed that prior to the 2.6.x.x series (whilst in the 2.4.x.x 
> series (I was stubborn)), that my mouse was working fine.
> 
> Now, however,if I plug my mouse in, the optical light comes on for perhaps 
> half a second, and the mouse goes dark.  The second thing that happens is if 
> you click either button, or move/click the scrollwheel, the cursor will go to 
> the upper right hand corner of the screen to where you only see a small 
> fraction of it.  This happens in both console mode and in graphical.
> 
> I have included the results from what dmesg displayed when I connected the 
> mouse to the computer, as well as some of the output from /var/log/messages:
> 
> input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> 
> Oct 18 06:47:25 scooby gpm[18741]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon 
> mode.
> Oct 18 06:48:46 scooby kernel: psmouse.c: bad data from KBC - timeout
> Oct 18 06:48:47 scooby hal.hotplug[22794]: DEVPATH is not set
> Oct 18 06:48:47 scooby hal.hotplug[22836]: DEVPATH is not set
> Oct 18 06:48:47 scooby kernel: input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1

So you start without a mouse plugged in and still it detects a mouse?

> Oct 18 06:52:54 scooby hal.hotplug[2047]: DEVPATH is not set
> Oct 18 06:52:55 scooby hal.hotplug[2133]: DEVPATH is not set
> Oct 18 06:52:55 scooby kernel: input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on 
> isa0060/serio1

And here you plug the mouse, right?

> Oct 18 06:54:28 scooby hal.hotplug[5846]: DEVPATH is not set
> Oct 18 06:54:28 scooby hal.hotplug[5884]: DEVPATH is not set
> Oct 18 06:54:29 scooby kernel: input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
> 

-- 
Dmitry
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