Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Feb 2004 11:01:11 +0100 | From | Lothar Roth <> | Subject | Re: kernel 2.6.x, no mouse, i8042??? |
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Valentine Kouznetsov wrote: > Hi, > I post already that I cannot get my mouse work in any 2.6 kernel. Searching > kernel archive I found discussion about i8042. I would appreciate if someone > will help me to find out what is wrong with all of these. > > My problem is trivial, no mouse at all, in console and X modes. No error > messages generated by kernel. Mouse is PS/2 as touchpad on Compaq Evo N600c > laptop. Kernel says: "mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice" > > Following discussion about similar problem a few people suggested to look at > i8042.nomux option. Well, I did. First of all I found that loading kernel > without any option gave me the following output: > i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0. > serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 > which I consider to be suspisious since 4 aux ports are on the same irq? > > Loading kernel with nomux option gave me: > serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 > but still no mouse. I also tried noaux option which only detect keyboard. > I tried /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice for all of these cases with no success. > What is also strange that trying /dev/input/mouse[0-X] gave oops for gpm > saying there is no such device??? > > For interesting parties I attach dmesg outputs. If someone want me to try > anything else I can give a shot to figure/fix this problem. > > I'm not on a list, please CC me. > > Thanks, > Valentine.
Hi,
I had a similar problem with recent kernel 2.6.x and gpm. Solution : the psmouse module is missing modprobe psmouse and the mouse is immediately available, no restart of gpm necessary ! lsmod shows that noone (count == 0) is using the module ! Removing the module and the mouse is away.
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