[gpm]Bug with IMPS/2 w/ Microsoft Intellimouse 1.3A on Linux

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

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And for some reason the author note on the I_ps2 function is horribily
out of date, I'll fix that when I update the Debian packages to use
1.20.x.

Zephaniah E. Hull.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:20:48PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> Ok, I should have commented a while back but I have been very busy with
> life.
>=20
> First off, doing the init via the shut off via reset, set everything,
> and reactivate does fix a /lot/ of problems.
>=20
> However it also breaks a lot of mice which, while they seem to plug into
> the PS/2 port, don't have a damn clue how to speak most of the protocol.
>=20
> Failure modes vary, but in general they just Don't Work.
>=20
> Below I will attach bits of the current Debian gpm init stuff, which
> handles PS/2, IMPS/2, and EXPS/2 all in the same init function, and also
> has a autops2 protocol which will automaticly detect which protocol of
> the three the mouse can speak which supports the most options.
>=20
> In addition to these modes I have fups2 and fuimps2, for mice which
> can't handle any sort of complex init sequence, I have yet to see
> reports of exps2 mice not being able to support the full set of
> commands, however it is only a matter of time before there become
> Logitech OEM mice which have more buttens. (OTOH, we could get lucky and
> they could be entirely USB.)
>=20
> I'll also include the parser for the protocols.
>=20
> (This code has NOT been updated to 1.20 yet, it is high on my todo list,
> but lower then getting the bathroom back together and usable.)
>=20
> This is just grabbing the relevant sections from the mice.c FWIW.
>=20
> Zephaniah E. Hull.
> Debian gpm maintainer.
> (Too bloody busy to keep up.)
>=20
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>=20
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