Re: PS/2 mouse problems
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 01:35:08
Col. Mojo T. Wiggley wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Khavkine Igor <k_igor_k@lycos.com>
>Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
>Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2001 7:20 PM
>Subject: PS/2 mouse problems
>
>
>> I have an Asus P5A motherboard and I'm
>> running Linux-2.4.5, custom compiled.
>>
>> I have a problem using my PS/2 mouse port.
>> I have enabled PS/2 mouse support in
>> the kernel. I get this message
>> when the computer boots up:
>> ...
>> Starting kswapd v1.8
>> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. <---
>> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
>> ...
>> However when I try to use the mouse
>> with gpm or X, it just doesn't work!
>> (I've tried protocols, PS/2 and microsoft).
>> I've noticed that /proc/interrupts
>> does not contain a line for interrupt
>> 12, which is supposed to be reserved for
>> PS/2. I think this could be a symptom
>> of something, but I don't know what.
>>
>> I've tried disabling and enabling
>> PS/2 support from the BIOS, but neither
>> option has any effect.
>>
>> If anyone could shed some light on this
>> situation or offer any advice, they'd
>> be more then welcome.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Igor
>
>Sounds like a problem I had. In my case, I opened up the XF86Config file
>(in etc/X11 I think) in vi, scrolled down to the mouse settings and found
>that "PS/2" was in lowercase... I changed it to uppercase and it worked
>(after much hair-pulling). Sounds crazy I know, and I don't know why this
>isn't all over the net, but it's worth a look. Let me know if it works
>out... I'm interested in knowing if I'm the only one with this problem.
>
Unfortunately the problem was not only
with X, but with gpm and anything else
that used the mouse. So I doubt it woas
something with my configuration, I think
it's a problem with the PS/2 driver.
But thanks for the tip.
Igor
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