Re: PS/2 mouse problems

[Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>]

Khavkine Igor wrote:

> 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.

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I had the same problem a week or two ago, but it was on a laptop with a 
Synaptics touch pad (not likely to be related to your problem, but 
thought I'd toss out the info). When I used the "synps" protocol instead 
of "ps2", gpm then started working properly. I don't remember for sure, 
but I don't think I ever was successful getting it to work properly in 
X, but it wasn't important so I just gave up on it.

Kent