On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49:20PM +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Dmitry Torokhov > <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
