Re: PS2 Input Core Support

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:58:08 +0200


On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:17:51PM +0200, Petr Vandrovec wrote:

> > Cool! Anyone send me a patch? ;)
>
> Been there, done that... and unfortunately, my WOP35 insist on
> taking first 6 bytes as PS/2->ImPS/2 sequence, and rest as normal
> DPI settings. I tried it in reverse order, and couple of permutations,
> but it still returns ExPS/2 id. I tried also other sequences from
> gm_psauxprint-0.01, but I found nothing interesting, except that
> mouse definitely does not support MS PNP id.
>
> Answer from A4Tech support was that mouse is not supported under Linux,
> and that I should use Windows and verify that mouse is properly connected.
> So I'm on the best way to the command line switch, I think. Google
> find couple of problem reporters, but nobody found detection method :-(

Well, it should be possible to snoop the mouse data off the wire using
a slightly modified parkbd.c module on a different machine and a split
PS/2 mouse cable ...

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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