evdev+hal => Too many input devices.

walt w41ter at gmail.com
Sun Jul 5 15:03:17 PDT 2009


On 07/05/2009 01:41 PM, Łukasz Maśko wrote:
> I have a Kingston BT mouse, which works pretty well with my Linux laptop. At
> least it has worked so far, becouse this is what I'm getting in log files
> right now, when I turn it on:
>
> (II) config/hal: Adding input device Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse
> (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: always reports core events
> (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/event10"
> (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found 3 mouse buttons
> (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found x and y relative axes
> (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found scroll wheel(s)
> (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Found keys
> (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Configuring as mouse
> (II) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: Configuring as keyboard
> (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: YAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
> (**) Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse: EmulateWheelButton: 4,
> EmulateWheelInertia: 10, EmulateWheelTimeout: 200
> (EE) Too many input devices. Ignoring Primax Corp.     (3) Button Mouse
> (II) UnloadModule: "evdev"

Do you have the "mouse" driver in your xorg.conf?
     Identifier  "Mouse1"
     Driver      "mouse"  <===========  This is not needed if you use evdev.
                                        (Same for the "keyboard" driver.)

Try commenting out the entire "Input" section if you have one.




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