On Mon, 2002-09-16 at 21:12, David Walluck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > John & Rebecca wrote: > | Hello all. > | > | At the urging of Alan, I have subscribed to the cooker mailing list to > report > | bugs. So here goes... :) > | > | I have a problem with the mouse testing during Mandrake install which > has been > | around since I've been using Mandrake at v7.0. I've had the same > problem on 5 > | different computers and 4 or 5 different mice (all PS2 tho). I > currently have > | a Logitech MouseMan Wheel "Laser" mouse. > > I have the same mouse and the same symptoms. It seems okay if you don't > use the mouse after the test phase, but if you mouse the mouse during > the test phase, then forget it -- the system can even lock up on you then. > > The odd thing is that this mouse works fine in X configured as a generic > PS/2 wheel mouse, just not during the install. BTW, this bug has existed > for at least a year now, and I'm sure it's been reported before. > > I, for one, would like to see it fixed. > > Also, the mouse itself came as USB, but I'm using the PS/2 adapter if > that makes a difference. And there is no support for the MouseMan thumb > button at all in Mandrake. Normally in windows it functions as a > double-click. > > I have seen that it is possible to configure this other button with > xmodmap, but it would be nice if mousedrake did it for us. > Hi,
Since we are dealing with IMPS2, gpm from time to time detects mine (standard Microsoft Intellimouse 1.1A) with an ID of 250 when I quit X, and assumes then it is a PS2 (wich does not work, the mouse become crazy). I changed gpm's mice.c to repeat several times the id call if it detects 250 or -1 and after 5 or 6 calls, then id comes backs as 3 and gpm seems to work fine. Maybe it's a bug in the mouse driver, the mouse or the BIOS itself, I don't know, but it does not look like it's really gpm's fault. However, it could maybe address this problem the way I did (polling the id several times until it is valid or a max number of retries is reached). Just a thought. The gpm error message is: === ERROR ===: [mice.c(1755)]: imps2: Auto-detected unknown mouse type 250, assuming standard PS/2 === ERROR ===: [mice.c(1755)]: imps2: Auto-detected unknown mouse type 250, assuming standard PS/2 =o= kk1
