Re: KVM & mouse wheel

[Dmitry Torokhov]

Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 07:38:55AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 August 2004 02:18 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:25:19AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tuesday 03 August 2004 11:29 pm, Marko Macek wrote:
> > > > > Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > <>I also had problems with my KVM switch and mouse when I
> initially
> > > > > > moved to
> > > > > > 2.6, but adding this kernel boot parameter fixed it, meybe it
> will help
> > > > > > you as well : psmouse.proto=imps
> > > > >
> > > > > This doesn't help. Only the patch I sent helps me. The problem is
> that the
> > > > > even with psmouse.proto=imps or exps, the driver still probes for
> > > > > synaptics which I
> > > > > consider a bug.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > No it is not - Synaptics with a track-point on a passthrough port
> will have
> > > > track-point disabled if it is not reset after probing for imps/exps.
> > >
> > > Hmm, does the imps/exps probe succeed in this case?
> >
> > No, it does not, at least not mine. It either does bare PS/2 or native,
> but
> > there are other Synaptics touchpads that can also do imps.
> 
> Ok, so how about issuing a reset when the imps probe fails? That'd take
> care of all the cases, and I suppose a Synaptics pad that can do imps
> will not be confused by it.
> 

Synaptics requires full reset, reset-disable alone is not enough.
Plus, when synaptics is detected but left in emulation mode, the
driver does synaptics-specific reset which initializes stuff that
survives reset-disable (for example it enables gestures so tapping
is guaranteed to work).

Additionally I think it's a good idea to detect hardware regardless
of the protocol it is using so user can see what he has. 

Anyway, I think that explicitely calling reset-disable after each
failed probe is a good idea... or maybe not after each probe but just
once, before probing for generic protocols (imps/exps), like in the
attached patch.

--
Dmitry

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