Re: USB2 and USB mice

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 21:32 -0500, Michael Butler wrote:
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> dmesg says:
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> ugen2.2: <Kensington> at usbus2
> ums0: <Kensington KTG USB/PS2 Wireless Wheel Mouse, class 0/0,
> 	rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2> on usbus2
> ums0: 3 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates
> Symlink: ums0 -> usb2.2.0.16
> 
>  .. but ls -l /dev shows no such device ..
> 
> imb_at_toshi:/home/imb> ls -al /dev/u*
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel            6 Feb 15 21:01 /dev/urandom ->
> 	random
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0,  74 Feb 15 21:01 /dev/usb
> 
> With USB-1, hald would create two processes, one for each mouse
> (synaptics touchpad and usb mouse), but now I only see one even after
> relinking with libusb20:
> 
> 35157  ??  Rs    12:30.22 /usr/local/sbin/hald
> 
> 
> 35158  ??  I      0:00.02 hald-runner
> 
> 
> 35164  ??  I      0:00.05 hald-addon-mouse-sysmouse: /dev/psm0
> 	(hald-addon-mouse-sy)
> 
> 35168  ??  S      0:00.12 hald-addon-storage: /dev/cd0
> 	(hald-addon-storage)
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> 
> No amount of fiddling with usbconfig seems to make any difference.
> 
> What am I missing here?

Hal doesn't yet work with usb2.  You will need to statically configure
your input devices in xorg.conf until support is added.

Joe

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