On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:01:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:25:12 +0100, Helge Hafting > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2.6.11-mm1 and earlier: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse0 > > > 2.6.11-mm3: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse1 > > > > > > No big problem, one change to xorg.conf and I got the mouse back. > > > I guess it wasn't supposed to change like that though? > > > > > > > Vojtech activated scroll handling in keyboard code by default so now > > your keyboard is mapped to the mouse0 and the mouse moved to mouse1. > > We cannot ship a kernel with this change, surely? Our users would come > hunting for us with pitchforks.
Mouse device numbers are defined to be unstable because of hotplug. Most users use /dev/input/mice, where this won't have impact. The officially correct solution is to use udev to get stable device names. The change is easily reverted - just change the 'atkbd.scroll' default value. > > Vojtech, is is possible to detect whether a keyboard has scroll > > wheel(s) by its ID? > > What sort of keyboard has a scroll wheel?? Many today. Microsoft, Logitech, most "office" and "internet" keyboards. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
