usb mouse

René Rebe rene at exactcode.de
Wed Oct 26 06:41:46 PDT 2005


On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:12, Marcus Schäfer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Would some kind soul please tell me how x.org works with usb mice? I've
> > one (MS USB mouse) that is working fine but xorg.conf shows that it is
> > using the IMPS/2 protocol. As it is a USB mouse, why x.org is using a
> > PS/2 protocol and it is still working? This is in Fedora core 3 (2.6
> > kernel).
>
> This is because of the kernel input interface. All mice except the serial
> ones are handled by the kernel. The kernel translate the information from

Serial onces are handled as well.

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