Bug#554158: linux-image-2.6-amd64: USB Dell "optical whell mouse" unrecognised

[Thomas Douillard]

Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64
Severity: normal


My standard Dell USB mouse labelled "Optical Wheel Mouse" does not wok in xorg, nor in console with gpm and the "/dev/input/mice" device.

I tried to "cat /dev/input/mice" but nothing happens when I use the mouse.

I tried to log what happened when I plugged the mouse, and I've four logs file attached :

* a part of the dmesg related to the plug of the mouse (which seems fine to me)
* a part of the "lshal" command related to the mouse (which seems not fine to me, the mouse is not seen as a mouse but as another kind of generic usb stuff)
* a log from the "udevadm monitor" command when I unpluged the mouse, then plug it again (which seem weird, it seems that the correct devices are created, but just after that deleted when I plug the mouse again)
* a log from the "udevadm test" command with the usb device address, which I does not really understand.

The mouse used to work fine before an update I can't date, in june or july of this year probably. I'm not sure the kernel is involved as the mouse seems not to work with older versions of the kernel and don't work now with the same versions.

PS: I decided to post a bug on the kernel package after this discussion on the debian-users ml : http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/367007/focus=367105 where there could be more informations.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash



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[Ben Hutchings-3]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:51:08PM +0100, Thomas Douillard wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64
> Severity: normal
[...]
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
[...]

This kernel version is no longer in Debian.  Please upgrade to the current
version and test whether that fixes the problem.

Ben.

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Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
        Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.



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[Thomas Douillard]

Hum ... I posted the bug with an older version of the kernel and mixed up the kernel versions while posted the bugreport.

I tried with all the following versions of the kernel :

> * 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP

> * 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP (but it warns me at boot time that the kernel is 
> two old for this version of udev - no sysfs)
> * 2.6.29-2-686 #1 SMP

I'm sure at least the 2.6.26 used to have no problem when I used it at the time, but it does not now. Maybe it's not the kernel itself ...

2009/11/3 Ben Hutchings <ben@...>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:51:08PM +0100, Thomas Douillard wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64
> Severity: normal

[...]

> Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)

[...]

This kernel version is no longer in Debian.  Please upgrade to the current
version and test whether that fixes the problem.

Ben.

--
Ben Hutchings
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
       Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.

[maximilian attems-9]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:03:38PM +0100, Thomas Douillard wrote:

> Hum ... I posted the bug with an older version of the kernel and mixed up
> the kernel versions while posted the bugreport.
>
> I tried with all the following versions of the kernel :
>
> > * 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP
> > * 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP (but it warns me at boot time that the kernel is
> > two old for this version of udev - no sysfs)
> > * 2.6.29-2-686 #1 SMP
>
> I'm sure at least the 2.6.26 used to have no problem when I used it at the
> time, but it does not now. Maybe it's not the kernel itself ...

recent and supported is 2.6.31 please provide test result of it.
thanks



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[Thomas Douillard]

2009/11/3 maximilian attems <max@...>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:03:38PM +0100, Thomas Douillard wrote:
> Hum ... I posted the bug with an older version of the kernel and mixed up
> the kernel versions while posted the bugreport.
>
> I tried with all the following versions of the kernel :
>
> > * 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP
> > * 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP (but it warns me at boot time that the kernel is
> > two old for this version of udev - no sysfs)
> > * 2.6.29-2-686 #1 SMP
>
> I'm sure at least the 2.6.26 used to have no problem when I used it at the
> time, but it does not now. Maybe it's not the kernel itself ...

recent and supported is 2.6.31 please provide test result of it.
thanks

Hello, I compiled my own 2.6.31 since it is still not in the debian repositories for my processor, and the results are exactly the same as in the previous versions. Do I need to select some parameters for the kernel before building it ?

Thomas

[Thomas Douillard]

The 2.6.31-1-686 kernel is now on unstable (the bug is attributed to the wrong kernel, if the architecture is involved), so I installed it, and the result is always the same ...

2009/11/9 Thomas Douillard <thomas.douillard@...>

2009/11/3 maximilian attems <max@...>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:03:38PM +0100, Thomas Douillard wrote:
> Hum ... I posted the bug with an older version of the kernel and mixed up
> the kernel versions while posted the bugreport.
>
> I tried with all the following versions of the kernel :
>
> > * 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP
> > * 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP (but it warns me at boot time that the kernel is
> > two old for this version of udev - no sysfs)
> > * 2.6.29-2-686 #1 SMP
>
> I'm sure at least the 2.6.26 used to have no problem when I used it at the
> time, but it does not now. Maybe it's not the kernel itself ...

recent and supported is 2.6.31 please provide test result of it.
thanks

Hello, I compiled my own 2.6.31 since it is still not in the debian repositories for my processor, and the results are exactly the same as in the previous versions. Do I need to select some parameters for the kernel before building it ?

Thomas