Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 07:21:31 EST


On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 12:09:29PM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:

> Not sure what is correct here, but:
> evtest /dev/input/event0 produce events for all keys on the keyboard.
> Both the normal pc-105 keys, silly extra keys like "favourites", "shopping",
> etc., and the wheels. The "volume" wheel generates VolumeUp and
> VolumeDown keypresses (and releases.) The other wheels generates
> the same events as the up-arrow and down-arrow keys.

In that case you don't need the wheel support in the atkbd.c driver.

It's for keyboards that generate the "Wheel +1" "Wheel -1" events like a
mouse would.

> evtest on /dev/input/event1 gives me events from the mouse.
> mouse0, mouse1 and mouse2 cannot be used with evtest.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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