From: Kim Holviala <kim@holviala.com>
To: Vitez Gabor <gabor@swszl.szkp.uni-miskolc.hu>
Subject: Re: 2.6.5 : problem with MS Intellimouse Explorer buttons when using X
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 08:47:25 +0300
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On Monday 12 April 2004 13:16, Vitez Gabor wrote:

> > Try modprobing the even device (modprobe evdev) to get /dev/input/event?.
> > Then run hexdump -C /dev/input/event1 (or whatever even device represents
> > your mouse) to see what REALLY happens in the kernel.
>
> Everything looks OK: there are no superfluous mouse events. This is the
> output I got:
>
>[clip]
>
> So the mouse event regeneration in the kernel seems to be buggy.

I just checked with vanilla 2.6.5 and the virtual /dev/input/mice 
(and /dev/psaux) indeed work as advertised. The problem, as I thought would 
be, is with XFree and it's incredible bad mouse handling. The XFree code is 
so bad I don't wanna touch it, but someone ought to write a driver for the 
event device so that we wouldn't need the PS/2 emulation anymore.


Kim


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