evdev+hal => Too many input devices.

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Sun Jul 5 16:09:33 PDT 2009


On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:41:26PM +0200, 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"
> (EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (11)
> 
> And the mouse is not working. What can I do in such a situation, instead of 
> restarting X? Maybe I should check something? I have never ever had such 
> situation for many months of using this mouse. I have not changed anything 
> in my system for many days.

Please attach the whole log, this snippet is not really useful for finding
the root of the problem.

Cheers,
  Peter



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