Strange mouse behavior on simple, fast click

[John]

Matthew Garrett wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 11:58 +0000, John wrote:
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>>That doesn't make sense to me. Red Hat's been confugiring USB mice for 
>>years, whether they were there or not. I think, back whe I used a 2.3  
>>kernel to get USB support so I could use my trackball. As I recall, I 
>>just plugged it in and it worked (I'd already built the kernel), thouhg 
>>I can't think why RH would have configured USB in XFree86 when the 
>>kernel didn't support it.
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>Until 2.6, ps/2 mouse events weren't sent to /dev/input/mice. They are
>now, so there's no need to read /dev/psaux as well.
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>>I do know that right now I have Sarge running with two rodents and both 
>>work. Simultaneously if I want. One's USB, the other PS/2.
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>There's no problem with that setup, but the correct configuration with a
>2.6 kernel is to only read from /dev/input/mice. Otherwise, any ps/2
>events will be read twice.
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>Yes, I know Sarge doesn't configure it like that. It's a bug.
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Okay, you've explained why Progeny might have configured it that way. 
Doesn't explain why it doesn't work though (plugging in a USB mouse does 
work).

Guess what I've just installed over my Progeny system? Grumble.