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.
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?
At Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:30:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@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?
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:53PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
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 probably will; it works fine with the X installer from a 5.4 DVD (and it fails to work with the 4.8 installer - so the installer matches the final build in the 4.8 case).
However the existing machine I want to use the keyboard on is already configured and running 4.8 (it's a work machine, initially installed as 4.1 or maybe even just 4) and I'm not willing to spend the time needed to rebuild it as a 5.5 machine and then reinstall and add 5+ years of customisation... maybe if I had more than 5 minutes of free time in my working day, but I can't afford the downtime the rebuild would require (I'm lucky if I can even do a yum update when the next version comes out!)
(2010年06月20日 10:38), Stephen Harris wrote:
However the existing machine I want to use the keyboard on is already configured and running 4.8 (it's a work machine, initially installed as 4.1 or maybe even just 4) and I'm not willing to spend the time needed to rebuild it as a 5.5 machine and then reinstall and add 5+ years of customisation...
How about virtualization?(CentOS5.5Xen+4.8, Ubuntu10.04+Vmwareplayer+4.8) Rebuilding kernel takes much times than making virtual environment.
(I'm lucky if I can even do a yum update when the next version comes out!)
There is no update for latest hardware recognition in CentOS4(in maintenance mode). This is upstream maintenance policy.
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