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SubjectRe: 2.5.73 Mouse
On Mon, 2003-06-23 17:11:36 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
wrote in message <20030623171136.A21216@ucw.cz>:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:30:52AM -0400, John Weber wrote:
>
> > My mouse suddenly stopped working with 2.5.73. I am using a Synaptics
> > Touchpad --
> > with comes with a Dell laptop. (I will test with an external mouse later).
> >
> > The SERIO I8042 driver seems to find my mouse, interrupts are firing,
> > and I enabled
> > the old /dev/psaux so that userland doesn't see anything different.
> > Most importantly,
> > the same config worked with 2.5.72. I noticed that dmesg was slightly
> > different across
> > the two versions which suggests that something did change.
>
> Option 1)
> Use psmouse_noext option on the command line. This will
> restore the previous behavior easily and immediately.

Will try that.

> Option 2)
> Get the Synaptics XFree86 driver for 2.5 kernels from
> http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
> This will enable additional features with the pad, like
> palm detection, multitap gestures and more. It will also
> make the pad work, of course.

Not really an option - gpm isn't a X11 thing. I've even tested GPM's
"synps2" protocol driver - doesn't work the tiniest bit:/

MfG, JBG

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