Bug 145617 – x11-misc/mkxf86config-0.9.7 doesn't recognize mouse

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Luca 2006-08-30 09:09:41 UTC]

Hi!
mkxf86config-0.9.7 doesn't recognize mouse, instead 0.9.3 works fine.

This is the section at line 159 from 0.9.3 (mouse working fine):

# PS/2 bug: Some keyboards are incorrectly used as mice in XFree. :-(
PSMOUSE="$(ls -l1 /dev/mouse* 2>/dev/null | awk '/input/{print $NF ; exit 
0}')"
if [ -n "$PSMOUSE" ];

And this is the same section in the 0.9.7 (mouse not working):

# PS/2 bug: Some keyboards are incorrectly used as mice in XFree. :-(
PSMOUSE="$(ls -l1 /dev/mouse* 2>/dev/null | awk '/psaux/{print $NF ; exit 
0}')"
if [ -n "$PSMOUSE" ];

As you can notice, the differences is between  input and psaux.

Luca

[Comment 1 Marek Wróbel 2006-11-25 13:48:10 UTC]

/dev/input/mice is handled *almost* correctly few lines later:

# Kernel 2.6 reports psaux via /dev/input/mice like USB
case "$KVER" in
        2.6.*)
                if [ -z "$PSMOUSE" ]; then
                        PSMOUSE='s|^.*InputDevice.*"PS/2 Mouse".*$|# PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6|g;'
                        USBMOUSE=""
                fi
        ;;
esac

There are 2 problems:
1. I haven't found anything that set $KVER, I changed it to $(uname -r)
2. When PS/2 mouse is not detected, $PSMOUSE is set to ugly sed command, so it isn't empty: changed
    if [ -z "$PSMOUSE" ];
to
    if [ -n "$PSMOUSE" ];

Working section:

# Kernel 2.6 reports psaux via /dev/input/mice like USB
case "$(uname -r)" in
        2.6.*)
                if [ -n "$PSMOUSE" ]; then
                        PSMOUSE='s|^.*InputDevice.*"PS/2 Mouse".*$|# PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6|g;'
                        USBMOUSE=""
                fi
        ;;
esac


Marek Wr

[Comment 2 Marek Wróbel 2006-11-25 13:48:10 UTC]

/dev/input/mice is handled *almost* correctly few lines later:

# Kernel 2.6 reports psaux via /dev/input/mice like USB
case "$KVER" in
        2.6.*)
                if [ -z "$PSMOUSE" ]; then
                        PSMOUSE='s|^.*InputDevice.*"PS/2 Mouse".*$|# PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6|g;'
                        USBMOUSE=""
                fi
        ;;
esac

There are 2 problems:
1. I haven't found anything that set $KVER, I changed it to $(uname -r)
2. When PS/2 mouse is not detected, $PSMOUSE is set to ugly sed command, so it isn't empty: changed
    if [ -z "$PSMOUSE" ];
to
    if [ -n "$PSMOUSE" ];

Working section:

# Kernel 2.6 reports psaux via /dev/input/mice like USB
case "$(uname -r)" in
        2.6.*)
                if [ -n "$PSMOUSE" ]; then
                        PSMOUSE='s|^.*InputDevice.*"PS/2 Mouse".*$|# PS/2 Mouse using /dev/input/mice in Kernel 2.6|g;'
                        USBMOUSE=""
                fi
        ;;
esac


Marek Wróbel

[Comment 3 Dan Coats 2006-12-14 13:52:09 UTC]

Created attachment 104065 [details]
here is another .conf

Just another .config that ps/2 mouse doesn't work.

[Comment 4 Dan Coats 2006-12-14 13:52:48 UTC]

Created attachment 104066 [details]
here is another .config

Just another .config that ps/2 mouse doesn't work.

[Comment 5 Dan Coats 2006-12-14 14:07:33 UTC]

sorry those were posted to wrong bug supposed to go to 157493 , not sure what happened.

[Comment 6 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2006-12-14 15:09:11 UTC]

Can you try out the new version of mkxf86config... it's in my dev overlay...

svn co http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/wolf31o2

If this works for you, it'll become "official" and go into the tree.

[Comment 7 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2007-01-04 15:16:47 UTC]

0.9.8 is in the tree now