Re: [patch] Re: psmouse.c, throwing 3 bytes away

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 15:10:53 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:48:55PM -0600, Greg Norris wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:07:35AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > USB?? This was for PS/2 mice. If it fixed your USB mouse problem, you
> > were using PS/2 drivers with your USB mouse, which is wrong (although it
> > can work). You need to use USB drivers.
>
> I thought I was... all of the appropriate USB drivers are enabled, and
> I haven't done anything special to load the psmouse module. I guess
> it's possible that a bootup script is loading it automagically,
> tho. I'll check into this.

The most suspicious issue here is that not only psmouse gets loaded, but
that it finds a mouse attached! Note that ehci-hcd is not enough, you
also will need either uhci or ohci.

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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