CentOS - Jun 2010 - Using a composite device under Centos 4.8 - no mouse clicks

I recently got an EEEbox.  This is an Atom based nettop.  It came with
a wireless keyboard/mouse which talk to a 2.4Ghz USB adapter (a Chicony
device as it turns out).

Now if I plug this adapter into a Centos 4.8 machine both the keyboard
and mouse are detected... but mouse clicks aren't.  I can move the mouse,
the scroll wheel works, but buttons 1/2/3 aren't detected.  Neither in X
nor in console gpm.

It worked fine in Ubuntu 10.04, and obviously works fine with Windows XP.

My feeling is that maybe perhaps the older 4.8 kernel doesn't have a
sufficiently good driver so I might be forced to compile my own (*sigh*)
but I was wondering if anyone else had come across a similar issue and
had a work around?

-- 

rgds
Stephen

At Sat, 19 Jun 2010 20:30:09 -0400 CentOS mailing list <centos at
centos.org> wrote:
> 
> I recently got an EEEbox.  This is an Atom based nettop.  It came with
> a wireless keyboard/mouse which talk to a 2.4Ghz USB adapter (a Chicony
> device as it turns out).
> 
> Now if I plug this adapter into a Centos 4.8 machine both the keyboard
> and mouse are detected... but mouse clicks aren't.  I can move the
mouse,
> the scroll wheel works, but buttons 1/2/3 aren't detected.  Neither in
X
> nor in console gpm.
Wondering: it might work with CentOS 5.5...  Centos 4.8 is getting long
in the tooth, partitularly for bleeding edge hardware...
> 
> It worked fine in Ubuntu 10.04, and obviously works fine with Windows XP.
> 
> My feeling is that maybe perhaps the older 4.8 kernel doesn't have a
> sufficiently good driver so I might be forced to compile my own (*sigh*)
> but I was wondering if anyone else had come across a similar issue and
> had a work around?
> 
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