Very Computer

My logitec busmouse has stopped working upon installation of Alpha-PL12 of
7 Aug.  Major 10, minor 0, /dev/mouse is linked to /dev/bmouselogitec.

I can still boot PL11 and it works fine with my X server, but with PL12, it
gets sucked down to the lower right-hand corner of the screen and stays there.
At least some Button presses still work -- just motion is hosed.

I believe this was just answered recently, but the news has expired from
my machine.

The mouse is a Logitech MouseMan Bus M/N: M-PD13-9MD.

Email welcome.
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Clay Haapala                    "Well, there was the process of sitting around

                                        -- Dilbert

I believe a lot of people are having this problem with the aug 7 kernel
0.99.12.

Just use the 0.99.11's busmouse.h and busmouse.c, and recompile the kernel
to fix the problem.

Basically, some of the signed char's got changed to unsigned char's in the
new pl12 kernel.  Some of the offending lines are declarations of "dx",
and "dy" variables to unsigned char's, which prevented negative direction
motions.  (Specifically, up and left are disabled, because those are the
negative direction.)

Read my post in comp.os.linux.development about it. [about 4 to 5 days old
article.]

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