Help interpreting evdev error messages?

walt w41ter at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 09:29:53 PDT 2009


Peter Hutterer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 06:52:42PM -0700, walt wrote:
>> My linux distribution (gentoo) just updated to xorg-server 1.5.3
>> and evdev 2.1.3.
>>
>> I have it almost-but-not-quite working...the mouse works except
 >> for emulate-wheel, which was working before the update.
>>  ...
>> Section "InputDevice"
>>       Identifier     "Mouse0"
>>       Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

> /dev/input/mice is not an evdev device...

Thanks, that was what I needed. Happily, when I use the correct
device the correct emulate-wheel button is read from xorg.conf.

I still see errors from X, though.  Are these normal?

(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: always reports core events
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
(II) Mouse0: Found 5 mouse buttons
(II) Mouse0: Found x and y relative axes
(II) Mouse0: Configuring as mouse
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "True"
(II) Mouse0: Forcing middle mouse button emulation on.
(**) Option "EmulateWheel" "True"
(**) Option "EmulateWheelButton" "8"
(**) Mouse0: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Mouse0: EmulateWheelButton: 8, EmulateWheelInertia: 10, 
EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
(**) Keyboard0: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
(II) Keyboard0: Found keys
(II) Keyboard0: Configuring as keyboard
(II) evaluating device (Mouse0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
(**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"   <************ From 10-keymap.fdi? ***
(II) config/hal: Adding input device ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: always reports core events
(**) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event4"
(WW) ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse: device file already in use. Ignoring.
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"   <************** Is this normal? *******
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "ImExPS/2 Logitech Explorer Mouse"
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed

In spite of these errors the mouse is working perfectly now.

The man page for evdev says nothing about the keyboard, oddly.
My keyboard is not a standard pc105 so some of my keys are cross-
wired, e.g. the up-arrow key sends a PrtScn/SysRq instead. Do I
need to customize 10-keymap.fdi?

(II) config/hal: Adding input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
(**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event3"
(WW) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: device file already in use. Ignoring.
(II) UnloadModule: "evdev"
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed

Thanks for your help!







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