Re: /dev/input/mice problem with 2.4.19-pre9 & 10

Brad Hards (bhards@bigpond.net.au)
Sun, 9 Jun 2002 09:51:49 +1000

On Sat, 8 Jun 2002 21:23, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Michael De Nil wrote:
> > When I move my mouse while catting /dev/input/mice, nothing appears ...
> >
> > Other USB-device work...
>
> Please try /dev/input/mouse0.
>
> [thunder@hawkeye.luckynet.adm /usr/src/thunder-2.5.20] (0) ls -l
> /dev/input/ total 0
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Dec 31 1969 mice
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 32 Dec 31 1969 mouse0
That won't make any difference - it will say "no such device".

Both devices are created by the same input subsystem mouse driver. That driver
is loaded (because /dev/input/mice was able to be opened), but there is no
underlying USB support for the input subsystem. Input subsystem support was
made configurable in -pre9, and if you don't select that option, then the hid
parser directs the output to /dev/usb/hiddevX.

Brad

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