Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 04 Jan 1997 18:30:14 +0000 | From | William Sowerbutts <> | Subject | Re: PS/2 mouse |
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At 16:35 04/01/97 +0100, ing. G.A. van Dorth wrote: >William > >after reinstalling Linux, and compiling the first kernel according >to my own configuration gpm, as well as X, is running without >the message device or recource busy. > >So I getting more and more confused about what the reason could be >for this stange behaviour of the PS/2-mouse driver. > >I have to mention that the same occured in earlier versions but for >whatever reason disapeared. > >George
Is your PS/2 device on your motherboard? Who manufactures the board? Is there any other device using the PS/2 ports interrupt or IO address space? (IRQ 12, I believe, and 0x0060 and 0x0064 for IO). I believe the chip you should have is an i8042, or some sort of hardware emulation in a Super IO chipset.
If you look in [linux-src-root]/drivers/char/psaux.c, you will see that there is a line which you may need to uncomment to initialise your mouse. perhaps this will aid you.
Good luck!
_________________________________________________________________________ William R Sowerbutts (BtG) btg@thepentagon.com Coder / Guru / Nrrrd http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~guru/ main(){char*s=">#=0> ^#X@#@^7=";int c=0,m;for(;c<15;c++)for (m=-1;m<7;putchar(m++/6&c%3/2?10:s[c]-31&1<<m?42:32));}
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