[CentOS] Using a composite device under Centos 4.8 - no mouse clicks
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Sun Jun 20 01:06:53 UTC 2010
At Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:30:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> I recently got an EEEbox. This is an Atom based nettop. It came with
> a wireless keyboard/mouse which talk to a 2.4Ghz USB adapter (a Chicony
> device as it turns out).
>
> Now if I plug this adapter into a Centos 4.8 machine both the keyboard
> and mouse are detected... but mouse clicks aren't. I can move the mouse,
> the scroll wheel works, but buttons 1/2/3 aren't detected. Neither in X
> nor in console gpm.
Wondering: it might work with CentOS 5.5... Centos 4.8 is getting long
in the tooth, partitularly for bleeding edge hardware...
>
> It worked fine in Ubuntu 10.04, and obviously works fine with Windows XP.
>
> My feeling is that maybe perhaps the older 4.8 kernel doesn't have a
> sufficiently good driver so I might be forced to compile my own (*sigh*)
> but I was wondering if anyone else had come across a similar issue and
> had a work around?
>
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