On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 07:14:17PM -0700, Gregory P. Smith wrote:
> In Documentation/usb/input.txt under mousedev.c it says that all
> devices will be shared on mouse0. This used to be the case; however
> looking at the code and playing with it to see what changed it looks
> like the mixed mouse device is now mouse31 (which is probably a good
> thing!). I'm noticed this in the 2.3.99-pre7-1 backport to 2.2 but I
> suspect it hasn't been fixed yet in the main tree. ;)
Ok, here's a fix. Randy, please apply this.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
--- input.txt Thu Apr 27 08:38:47 2000
+++ input.txt.new Wed May 10 07:39:06 2000
@@ -185,24 +185,28 @@
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 33 Mar 29 00:41 mouse1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 34 Mar 29 00:41 mouse2
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 35 Apr 1 10:50 mouse3
-
-and so on, up to mouse31. Each is assigned to a single mouse or digitizer,
-unless CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_MIX is set. In that case all mice and
-digitizers share a single character device, mouse0, and even when none are
-connected, mouse0 is present. This is useful for hotplugging USB mice, so
-that programs can open the device even when no mice are present.
+ ...
+ ...
+ crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 62 Apr 1 10:50 mouse30
+ crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Apr 1 10:50 mice
+
+Each 'mouse' device is assigned to a single mouse or digitizer, except the last
+one - 'mice'. This single character device is shared by all mice and
+digitizers, and even if none are connected, the device is present. This is
+useful for hotplugging USB mice, so that programs can open the device even when
+no mice are present.
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_[XY] in the kernel configuration are the size
of your screen (in pixels) in XFree86. This is needed if you want to use
your digitizer in X, because it's movement is sent to X via a virtual PS/2
-mouse.
+mouse. These values won't be used if you use a mouse only.
Mousedev.c will generate either PS/2, ImPS/2 (microsoft intellimouse) or
GenPS/2 (genius netmouse/netscroll) protocols, depending on what the program
-wishes. You can set GPM and X to any of these. You'll need ImPS/2 if you
-want to make use of a wheel on a USB mouse and GenPS/2 if you want to use
-extra (up to 5) buttons. I'm not sure how much is GenPS/2 supported in X,
-though.
+reading the data wishes. You can set GPM and X to any of these. You'll need
+ImPS/2 if you want to make use of a wheel on a USB mouse and GenPS/2 if you
+want to use extra (up to 5) buttons. I'm not sure how much is GenPS/2 supported
+in X, though.
3.2.3 joydev.c
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -216,6 +220,7 @@
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 1 Apr 1 10:50 js1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 2 Apr 1 10:50 js2
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 3 Apr 1 10:50 js3
+ ...
And so on up to js31.
@@ -236,6 +241,7 @@
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 65 Apr 1 10:50 event1
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 66 Apr 1 10:50 event2
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 67 Apr 1 10:50 event3
+ ...
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