Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jun 2003 18:21:37 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: 2.5.73 Mouse |
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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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