From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752146Ab0AYXZk (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:25:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751537Ab0AYXZj (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:25:39 -0500 Received: from mail-pz0-f189.google.com ([209.85.222.189]:59562 "EHLO mail-pz0-f189.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751120Ab0AYXZi (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:25:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=LscQul7TJfdpUGGsX67G6Gm1wjIAl+qeUKWaFzSUgFoFGwXDP/MhTqltyj52slDEGL KLh5S51TmBLjwvB2tma5KgJs5sK4qcUhGGP3trU0KUhFa+8BkXSSHgczaAakF+G6epOn FvWnwCmaCTmuP7WHwW6LaoJjtFCzg+9npj9p0= Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:25:21 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Guillaume Chazarain Cc: ajax@redhat.com, LKML , linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: evdev regression on macbook with 2.6.33-rc5 Message-ID: <20100125232520.GC30307@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <3d8471ca1001231053k512011dcnfab50052ce3667fa@mail.gmail.com> <20100124093055.GA17607@core.coreip.homeip.net> <3d8471ca1001251449g6bdbdb4fn11f566b41691f870@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d8471ca1001251449g6bdbdb4fn11f566b41691f870@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49:20PM +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > wrote: > > DOes the same behavior happens when you try using 'evtest' utility while > > in console? > > Hi Dmitry, > > While struggling to make evtest show keyboard events, I discovered > that the problem is an incompatibility with mouseemu > (http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/mouseemu) as killing it makes the > keyboard work fine. > > So, with mouseemu running, evtest won't print any event at all even if > I move the mouse, and when mouseemu is off everything works fine and > evtest prints the expected events. > Ah, well, I checked out the sources for this fine specimen. Oh man... Then we have Debian guys adding their perls to keyboard handler: ++ if (inp.type != EV_KEY && inp.type != EV_REP) ++ return; Obviously EV_SYN is completely useless message. And who cares about keyboards with scroll wheels, volume sliders, etc, right? This package either needs lots of love or it just needs to die... -- Dmitry