Re: trackpoint and the 2.6.3 kernel

[Michael Ott <michael@zolnott.de>]

Hello Werner, hello Sridhar!

> > I have a Dell Inspiron 4100 with both a touchpad and the little stick
> > mouse (I believe it is called a trackpoint). 
> > 
> > I'm running unstable and I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.3 from 2.4.24.
> > Everything is now working fine except my trackpoint. Strange as it may
> > seem, I actually like using both!!! 
> 
> You may check, whether `modprobe psmouse' helps. To be honest,
> my mouse didn't work anymore, when upgrading to 2.6.x either, and this
> approach got her running ;-)
> 
> But just in case this doesn't work for you, try `modinfo -p psmouse'
> and fiddle with the options shown. If you didn't build psmouse as a
> module, you should try that. 
> 
> If this doesn't help, try to built the psmouse driver into the
> kernel (from my experience this was necessary with former Kernel
> generations).
I have the same problem but psmouse is loaded. It does not work when you
load the module psmouse on start and after then hotplug is started. 

But after remove the psmouse module and load it again it works.

CU        
         
  Michael  
          
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