Re: PS/2 Mouse does no longer work with kernel 2.6 on a laptop

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 02:17:00 EST


Followup to: <20040213070333.GA1555@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Dominik Kubla <dominik@xxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:44:23PM +0000, Emmeran Seehuber wrote:
> > Hello everybody!
> >
> > I'm trying to switch my laptop from kernel 2.4 to kernel 2.6.2. Everything
> > seems to work correctly, only my PS/2 mouse doesn't.
>
> Seconded. After update from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2 both the built-in touchpad and
> stick stopped working. XFree86 complained about "no such device" (or something
> similiar) when accessing /dev/psaux. /dev/input/mice is also configured but
> seems not to work.
>
> Hardware is a Dell Inspiron 8000.
>

I've seen the same on a Transmeta development platform, which is
designed to "look like" a laptop. Makes me wonder if there is some
interaction with ACPI.

-hpa

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