Re: evdev regression on macbook with 2.6.33-rc5

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:49:20PM +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > DOes the same behavior happens when you try using 'evtest' utility while
> > in console?
> 
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> While struggling to make evtest show keyboard events, I discovered
> that the problem is an incompatibility with mouseemu
> (http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/mouseemu) as killing it makes the
> keyboard work fine.
> 
> So, with mouseemu running, evtest won't print any event at all even if
> I move the mouse, and when mouseemu is off everything works fine and
> evtest prints the expected events.
> 

Ah, well, I checked out the sources for this fine specimen. Oh man...
Then we have Debian guys adding their perls to keyboard handler:

++	if (inp.type != EV_KEY && inp.type != EV_REP)
++		return;

Obviously EV_SYN is completely useless message. And who cares about
keyboards with scroll wheels, volume sliders, etc, right?

This package either needs lots of love or it just needs to die...

-- 
Dmitry
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