Mouse and keyboard troubles with USB -> PS/2 adapter

[Kjetil K. <kj...@kj...>]

Hello again!

Well, I'm not quite finished yet... :-) 

Yesterday, I got out and bought the USB -> PS/2 adapter (labelled 
Tangtop Generic USBPS2), and I've been trying to get it to work since 
then. Current status is that the primary keyboard is on the normal 
PS/2-port, the primary mouse is on the mouse's usual PS/2, and the 
secondary keyboard and mouse on an USB port using this gadget. That's 
the configuration I intend to be permanent. 

Unfortunately, it is only the primary keyboard that works. Not the 
primary mouse, nor the secondary stuff. 

The strange thing is that /dev/psaux, /dev/input/mouse0 and 
/dev/input/event0, the devices where one should expect stuff to be on, 
they all work... E.g. cat /dev/input/mouse0 yields output if I touch 
the secondary mouse. Yeah, this change is reflected in the X 
config... :-)

Output of /proc/bus/input/devices is
isa0060/serio0/input0
usb-00:04.2-2/input0

I now boot with dumbcon=3 (don't think I need it, though, no multimedia 
keys).

In the interest of bandwidth conservation, I've dropped the config files 
and the logs to http://dev.kjernsmo.net/tmp/multi-user-logs1/ instead 
of attaching them. 

I've been slightly confused about the connection between the numbering 
on virtual terminals, tty's, and how they relate to the number I put at 
the end of the line in the Xserver file... vt[n] you know... :-) So, 
you can see in 
http://dev.kjernsmo.net/tmp/multi-user-logs1/XFree86.1.log
that I've used vt16. I've used vt9 and vt8 too, without success. I have 
vt8 now, as from my current understanding, it should be correct, since 
dmesg says:
 keyboard.c Tangtop Generic USBPS2 VT1 first VC 8


There is a weird thing that may have some relevance, that happens if I 
go cat /proc/bus/usb/devices... It takes a long time to get anything, 
and at the end of http://dev.kjernsmo.net/tmp/multi-user-logs1/dmesg
you see lines like:
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout

Scary, huh?

Well, other than that, I have no idea... As long as the devices give 
some output, I thought things would be OK... (I have not yet taken the 
advice to go for gdm...). Any takers...? :-)

Finally, I just upgraded to Andreas' latest XFree-packages (thanks a 
lot, Andreas!), but I have not changed the config to use the 
PrefBusID-option yet. 

Cheers,

Kjetil
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