Re: Problem with keyboard generating events persists in 2.6.7

[Helge H. <hel...@ai...>]

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 01:10:26PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I've finally taken the steps up to kernel 2.6! I compiled 2.6.7 a couple 
> of days ago with Ruby from the CVS, and stuff works pretty nicely. :-) 
> Thanks again for all the efforts you put into this!
> 
How do you get ruby out of cvs these days?

$ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:ano...@cv...:/cvsroot/linuxconsole update ruby
cvs [update aborted]: unrecognized auth response from cvs.sourceforge.net: M PserverBackend::PserverBackend() Connect (No route to host)

I don't have routing trouble - I can ping cvs1.sourceforge.net

> However, the problem I had with 2.4 last year still persists. To 
> summarize it: I have a "Tangtop Generic USBPS2" device that can be 
> plugged in a USB port that has a connector for both PS/2 keyboard and 
> mouse. I'd like to use that for my secondary head in a multi-head 
> setup. 

Perhaps a USB driver p�roblem?
> 
> It comes up and looks normal, but all of a sudden, it starts generating 
> events on one of the keyboards. The symptoms are the same as I had with 
> 2.4 last year, which I reported here on the list, thread starting here:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6466803
> 
> Well, I just wanted to let you know. The Real World[tm] is still 
> dictating that I need to live with a somewhat inferior setup right now 
> (where I have both mice on USB and both keyboards on PS/2), but of 
> course I hope to get back to it to help debugging some day.
> 
What's inferior about using keyboards on ps/2? That's what I use,
and serial mice.  That way I didn't have to buy any new keyboard.

Helge Hafting