Re: Touchpad functionality dissappeared for no apparent reason!

[Mattia Dongili <dongili@supereva.it>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:46:23PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> On September 27, 2004 03:24 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote:
[...]
> Did you always have to do that?  I do. I can only attach my USB mouse (on an 
> Inspiron 2500 w/ 2.6.7) _after_  I get the Synaptics pad recognized.  I'm 
> sure that's something to do with the ordering of the loading of various 
> modules, because I can get X to start up if I very carefully remove all the 
> modules, then modprobe psmouse, then start X, then connect the USB mouse. 

I had the same problem and there are 2 possible causes:
1. Legacy USB support must be disabled in your bios
2. modules loading order, I have the following sequence in /etc/modules:
      cpufreq_powersave
      uhci-hcd
      hid
      agpgart
      intel-agp
      radeon
      pcspkr
      evdev
      speedstep-ich
      sonypi
      psmouse
thus psmouse is the last one. I didn't worry too much about hotplug, it
will just complain about the modules already loaded

hth :)
-- 
mattia
:wq!