Messages in this thread | | | From | tim.leeuwvander@nl ... | Date | Wed, 18 Aug 1999 22:52:15 +0200 | Subject | Laptop PS/2 mouse refuses to work in 2.2.x/2.3.x |
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For my humble laptop, I'm still stuck with the 2.0.x kernels due to the fact that the psaux-device can't be opened for any of the 2.2.x kernels that I tried (including the very latest 2.2.12final), and neither for 2.3.14pre2.
I'm aware of the problem ever since SuSE6.1 came out and have posted a message on here before, however, never got an answer ... and the neither is the problem fixed, alas! :-)
I get the problem both with the stock suse kernel (2.2.5) and with selfcompiled kernels, and I know that there are also Debian users which have this problem. However, not all laptops have this problem, as my gf's laptop runs 2.2.x kernels without a problem!
I made an strace and got the following output:
execve("/bin/cat", ["cat", "/dev/psaux"], [/* 46 vars */]) = 0 [...] personality(PER_LINUX) = 0 getpid() = 269 brk(0) = 0x804ba5c brk(0x804ba94) = 0x804ba94 brk(0x804c000) = 0x804c000 fstat(1, {st_mode=S_ISGID|01, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 open("/dev/psaux", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) open("/dev/psaux", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOSYS (Function not implemented) open("/dev/psaux", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENODEV (Operation not supported by device) write(2, "cat: ", 5cat: ) = 5 write(2, "/dev/psaux", 10/dev/psaux) = 10 write(2, ": Operation not supported by dev"..., 35: Operation not supported by device) = 35 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 close(1) = 0 _exit(1) = ?
(This strace was made running 2.3.14pre2).
If more info is needed, let me know what is wanted. I'm staying in the UK at the moment and should be able to find a spare weekend to visit any interested UK-based Linux hackers with the laptop in question under my arms, so that they can have a personal look at what's going on :-) In return I can offer to abuse their kitchen for cooking them a vegetarian dinner (altho, warning, I haven't had to cook for the last 4 weeks ;-)
Kind regards and Happy Hacking,
--Tim :-)
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