USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

[viking]

-blather-
It took a few days before I actually saw this posting. I also agree that
2.6.10 seems to be more stable than 2.6.11 - mind you, that could be
because I'm using 2.6.10-linus (i.e. the tarball from the linux.org site)
and the 2.6.11 is a Mandrake-ised kernel + Linus patches - at least I
*think* they're Linus' patches - no Visual Basic in them yet.
I've also noted .10 is quicker off the blocks than 2.6.11 seems to be.

-meat-
I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I
tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving
from left to right, and would only move up and down if I physically moved
the mouse from left to right. I didn't see anything in the patches that
touched anything in the event handling, so frankly I'm puzzled.
Any clues as to where I need to look? I've seen this problem before, but
don't know what causes it, nor how I fixed it at the time.
Also, how do I get that patch that enables the tiltwheel (left-right
events)?

-blather-
I'll try out .5 once I fetch the patch and spend another three hours on my
cluster, compiling. Again. The reason I haven't dipped into real testing
of kernels was precisely for this reason, that I didn't want to have to
spend absolutely ages waiting for a compile. However, I've finally decided
to dip my toes back in the water, with the 2.6.11 series...

Love the Suspend-to-disk... only wish I could load a saved image into a
later kernel, though I understand why this can't be done. That would be my
current "killer app".

'Nuff mumbling.

CC if you wish, but I ought to be watching the list again for this one.

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Re: USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

[Andrew Morton]

viking <viking@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz> wrote:
>
> I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I
>  tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving
>  from left to right, and would only move up and down if I physically moved
>  the mouse from left to right. I didn't see anything in the patches that
>  touched anything in the event handling, so frankly I'm puzzled.
>  Any clues as to where I need to look? I've seen this problem before, but
>  don't know what causes it, nor how I fixed it at the time.
>  Also, how do I get that patch that enables the tiltwheel (left-right
>  events)?

Could you please test 2.6.12-rc1?

Re: USB mouse hiccups

[viking]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:41:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> viking <viking@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> > I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I
> >  tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving
> >  from left to right, and would only move up and down if I physically moved
> >  the mouse from left to right. I didn't see anything in the patches that
> >  touched anything in the event handling, so frankly I'm puzzled.
> >  Any clues as to where I need to look? I've seen this problem before, but
> >  don't know what causes it, nor how I fixed it at the time.
> >  Also, how do I get that patch that enables the tiltwheel (left-right
> >  events)?
> 
> Could you please test 2.6.12-rc1?

Yeesh. You ARE keen, aren't you. I'll attempt to do so over the next day or
so. Thanks.

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Re: USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

[viking]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:41:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> viking <viking@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz> wrote:
> >
> > I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I
> >  tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving
> >  from left to right, and would only move up and down if I physically moved
> >  the mouse from left to right. I didn't see anything in the patches that
> >  touched anything in the event handling, so frankly I'm puzzled.
> >  Any clues as to where I need to look? I've seen this problem before, but
> >  don't know what causes it, nor how I fixed it at the time.
> >  Also, how do I get that patch that enables the tiltwheel (left-right
> >  events)?
> 
> Could you please test 2.6.12-rc1?

Got it compiled this evening. How many days do you want me to run it for? A
week? Can I test out the suspend-to-disk on this release too?

Thanks for your attention on this.

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Re: USB mouse hiccups (was RFD: Kernel release numbering)

[Andrew Morton]

viking <viking@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 04:41:29PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > viking <viking@flying-brick.caverock.net.nz> wrote:
> > >
> > > I did note something strange. I'm running 2.6.11.2 at this moment, when I
> > >  tried 2.6.11.3, my USB Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse stopped moving
> > >  from left to right, and would only move up and down if I physically moved
> > >  the mouse from left to right. I didn't see anything in the patches that
> > >  touched anything in the event handling, so frankly I'm puzzled.
> > >  Any clues as to where I need to look? I've seen this problem before, but
> > >  don't know what causes it, nor how I fixed it at the time.
> > >  Also, how do I get that patch that enables the tiltwheel (left-right
> > >  events)?
> > 
> > Could you please test 2.6.12-rc1?
> 
> Got it compiled this evening. How many days do you want me to run it for? A
> week?

Well it should take about seven seconds to work out if the mouse movement
is still broken?

> Can I test out the suspend-to-disk on this release too?

Please do.