Re: 2.6.25-rc5.git4 regression PS/2 mouse not detected/working

[Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>]

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 11:54 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:58:43PM +0200, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 14:55 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:33:49PM +0200, Yanko Kaneti wrote:
> > > > Hi
> > > > 
> > > > My PS/2 mouse stops being detected between kernels 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 and
> > > > 2.6.25-0.121.rc5.git4.fc9 (which I believe do not carry any patches in
> > > > that area). Its an ASUS P5E-VM DO motherboard , bios revision 0506. The
> > > > PS/2 keyboard still works.
> > > > 
> > > > Attached are both dmesg logs with i8042.debug=1, dmidecode, lspci -vvnn
> > > > Tried i8042.noloop and both the mouse and keyboard stop working.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Could you please send me dmesg from booting with i8042.noloop. I would
> > > expect this option to help in your case so I am curious what went wrong.
> > 
> > Attached
> > 
> 
> Hmm, it looks the kernel does the right thing in case of i8042.noloop,
> except that it does not work :(. Kernel triest to query the mouse but
> it does not respond.
> 
> Can you try taking contents of drivers/input/serio from 2.6.25 and
> copy it in .24? It will most likely compile... If that works I'm
> afraid I will ahve to ask you to do git biscect to find the offending
> commit.

It works. I am afraid I don't know when/if I'll be able to do the
bisecting thing :(

It would be really nice if someone has written a guide or something for
most hassle-free way of doing it on a Fedora system.

Regards
Yanko