Novatek USB Keyboard/Mouse Bug

From: Ivan Gyurdiev (ivg2_at_cornell.edu)
Date: 08/28/03

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    Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2003 17:51:42 -0400
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

    Hi, I finally figured out why my wireless mouse turns off and on
    randomly every once in a while and works depending on the usb hub it is
    in - it's the keyboard's fault.

    My mouse is:
    PM: Adding info for usb:2-2
    input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Receiver] on usb-0000:00:10.0-2

    My keyboard is:
    PM: Adding info for usb:2-1
    input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [NOVATEK Keyboard NT6881] on
    usb-0000:00:10.0-1
    PM: Adding info for usb:2-1:0
    input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [NOVATEK Keyboard NT6881] on usb-0000:00:10.0-1
    PM: Adding info for usb:2-1:1

    As you can see the kernel thinks it's also a mouse, which it definitely
    is not. I've previously posted this to LKML somewhere, and my
    impressions were that people don't think it's a bug, since some other
    model of that keyboard worked together with a mouse somehow. Perhaps
    that's true, but I do not have a second mouse. The kernel thinks I do,
    and switching the keyboard and the mouse usb hubs results in mouse
    devices reordering and X not working with the proper mouse (attempting
    to use the keyboard as mouse, which apparently does not work).

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