2.5.73 Mouse

2.5.73 Mouse

[John Weber]

My mouse suddenly stopped working with 2.5.73.  I am using a Synaptics 
Touchpad --
with comes with a Dell laptop.  (I will test with an external mouse later).

The SERIO I8042 driver seems to find my mouse, interrupts are firing, 
and I enabled
the old /dev/psaux so that userland doesn't see anything different. 
Most importantly,
the same config worked with 2.5.72.  I noticed that dmesg was slightly 
different across
the two versions which suggests that something did change.

--- dmesg-2.5.72        2003-06-23 09:11:32.000000000 -0400
+++ dmesg-2.5.73        2003-06-23 09:12:52.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,21 +1,4 @@
-1d490
-pass
-page 3
-f79c892a338f4a8b
-pass
-
-testing des ecb encryption chunking scenario B
-page 1
-c957
-pass
-page 2
-44
-pass
-page 3
-256a5e
-pass
-page 4
-d31df79c892a338f4a8bb49926f71fe1d490
+1fe1d490
  pass

  testing des ecb encryption chunking scenario C
@@ -523,7 +506,15 @@
  serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
  serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
  serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
-input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
+Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
+ Firware: 5.8
+ 180 degree mounted touchpad
+ Sensor: 18
+ new absolute packet format
+ Touchpad has extended capability bits
+ -> multifinger detection
+ -> palm detection
+input: Synaptics Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
  serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
  input: AT Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
  serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
@@ -548,7 +539,7 @@
  Initializing IPsec netlink socket
  NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
  VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
-Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
+Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
  Adding 498004k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1

Any suggestions?

Re: 2.5.73 Mouse

[Alexander Hoogerhuis]

Ditto, Compaq evo n800c lapdog here.

mvh,
A

John Weber <weber@sixbit.org> writes:

> My mouse suddenly stopped working with 2.5.73.  I am using a Synaptics
> Touchpad --
> with comes with a Dell laptop.  (I will test with an external mouse later).
> 
> The SERIO I8042 driver seems to find my mouse, interrupts are firing,
> and I enabled
> the old /dev/psaux so that userland doesn't see anything
> different. Most importantly,
> the same config worked with 2.5.72.  I noticed that dmesg was slightly
> different across
> the two versions which suggests that something did change.
> 
> --- dmesg-2.5.72        2003-06-23 09:11:32.000000000 -0400
> +++ dmesg-2.5.73        2003-06-23 09:12:52.000000000 -0400
> @@ -1,21 +1,4 @@
> -1d490
> -pass
> -page 3
> -f79c892a338f4a8b
> -pass
> -
> -testing des ecb encryption chunking scenario B
> -page 1
> -c957
> -pass
> -page 2
> -44
> -pass
> -page 3
> -256a5e
> -pass
> -page 4
> -d31df79c892a338f4a8bb49926f71fe1d490
> +1fe1d490
>   pass
> 
>   testing des ecb encryption chunking scenario C
> @@ -523,7 +506,15 @@
>   serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
>   serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
>   serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> -input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
> +Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
> + Firware: 5.8
> + 180 degree mounted touchpad
> + Sensor: 18
> + new absolute packet format
> + Touchpad has extended capability bits
> + -> multifinger detection
> + -> palm detection
> +input: Synaptics Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio4
>   serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
>   input: AT Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
>   serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> @@ -548,7 +539,7 @@
>   Initializing IPsec netlink socket
>   NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
>   VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> -Freeing unused kernel memory: 172k freed
> +Freeing unused kernel memory: 176k freed
>   Adding 498004k swap on /dev/hda2.  Priority:-1 extents:1
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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Re: 2.5.73 Mouse

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:30:52AM -0400, John Weber wrote:

> My mouse suddenly stopped working with 2.5.73.  I am using a Synaptics 
> Touchpad --
> with comes with a Dell laptop.  (I will test with an external mouse later).
> 
> The SERIO I8042 driver seems to find my mouse, interrupts are firing, 
> and I enabled
> the old /dev/psaux so that userland doesn't see anything different. 
> Most importantly,
> the same config worked with 2.5.72.  I noticed that dmesg was slightly 
> different across
> the two versions which suggests that something did change.

Option 1)
	Use psmouse_noext option on the command line. This will
	restore the previous behavior easily and immediately.

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.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

Re: 2.5.73 Mouse

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Mon, 2003-06-23 17:11:36 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
wrote in message <20030623171136.A21216@ucw.cz>:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:30:52AM -0400, John Weber wrote:
> 
> > My mouse suddenly stopped working with 2.5.73.  I am using a Synaptics 
> > Touchpad --
> > with comes with a Dell laptop.  (I will test with an external mouse later).
> > 
> > The SERIO I8042 driver seems to find my mouse, interrupts are firing, 
> > and I enabled
> > the old /dev/psaux so that userland doesn't see anything different. 
> > Most importantly,
> > the same config worked with 2.5.72.  I noticed that dmesg was slightly 
> > different across
> > the two versions which suggests that something did change.
> 
> 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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Re: 2.5.73 Mouse

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Mon, 2003-06-23 18:21:37 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
wrote in message <20030623162137.GL6353@lug-owl.de>:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 17:11:36 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
> wrote in message <20030623171136.A21216@ucw.cz>:
> > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:30:52AM -0400, John Weber wrote:
> > 
> > > My mouse suddenly stopped working with 2.5.73.  I am using a Synaptics 
> > > Touchpad --
> > > with comes with a Dell laptop.  (I will test with an external mouse later).
> > > 
> > > The SERIO I8042 driver seems to find my mouse, interrupts are firing, 
> > > and I enabled
> > > the old /dev/psaux so that userland doesn't see anything different. 
> > > Most importantly,
> > > the same config worked with 2.5.72.  I noticed that dmesg was slightly 
> > > different across
> > > the two versions which suggests that something did change.
> > 
> > Option 1)
> > 	Use psmouse_noext option on the command line. This will
> > 	restore the previous behavior easily and immediately.
> 
> Will try that.

Well, it doesn't restore the old behavior. With Linux-2.5.n (n <= 72)
I could do a fast double-press onto the pad to have a left-click. This
doesn't work after supplying "psmouse_noext=1" to the module. Further
more, Windowmaker's menus don't any longer automatically pop up - I have
to press a mouse button to make that happen.

GPM (with "autops2" driver) works as before, though.

XFree uses "PS/2" as it's driver, directly using (legacy) /dev/psaux
device...

I was quite okay with the old behavior (though I haven't tested XFree
with the specialized Synaptics driver).

MfG, JBG

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Re: 2.5.73 Mouse

[Eivind Tagseth]

* Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de> [030623 19:37]:
> On Mon, 2003-06-23 18:21:37 +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
> wrote in message <20030623162137.GL6353@lug-owl.de>:

I've also got a Dell with a touchpad.  With 2.5.73 neither touchpad or 
external mouse works at all.

> > > Option 1)
> > > 	Use psmouse_noext option on the command line. This will
> > > 	restore the previous behavior easily and immediately.

This makes the mouse "work", but it's behaviour is completely whacky
and completely uncontrollable. 

The old behaviour was excellent for me btw, both for external mouse and
the touchpad.  Double-tapping worked as expected.



Eivind

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