Re: 2.5.73 Mouse

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Mon, 2003-06-23 17:11:36 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik <[e-mail]>
wrote in message <[e-mail]>:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:30:52AM -0400, John Weber wrote:
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> > My mouse suddenly stopped working with 2.5.73.  I am using a Synaptics=
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> > Touchpad --
> > with comes with a Dell laptop.  (I will test with an external mouse lat=
er).
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> > The SERIO I8042 driver seems to find my mouse, interrupts are firing,=
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> > and I enabled
> > the old /dev/psaux so that userland doesn't see anything different.=20
> > Most importantly,
> > the same config worked with 2.5.72.  I noticed that dmesg was slightly=
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> > different across
> > the two versions which suggests that something did change.
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> Option 1)
> 	Use psmouse_noext option on the command line. This will
> 	restore the previous behavior easily and immediately.

Will try that.

> Option 2)
> 	Get the Synaptics XFree86 driver for 2.5 kernels from
> 	http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
> 	This will enable additional features with the pad, like
> 	palm detection, multitap gestures and more. It will also
> 	make the pad work, of course.

Not really an option - gpm isn't a X11 thing. I've even tested GPM's
"synps2" protocol driver - doesn't work the tiniest bit:/

MfG, JBG

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