Re: psmouse unusable in -mm series (was: 2.6.15-rc1-mm2 unsusable on DELL Inspiron 8200, 2.6.15-rc1 works fine)

Rafael J. Wysocki
2005-11-24T21:19:29Z

Update:

On Thursday, 24 of November 2005 21:23, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 of November 2005 13:44, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> }-- snip --{
> > > It looks like you are seeing a different bug. The one opened for debian user space
> > > covers mousedev not being loaded if the kernel is 2.6.15, which leads to no /dev/input
> > >
> >
> > That's what I think, thus the report on LKLM. But noone but me seems to
> > be trapped into it until... :/
>
> FWIW, my touchpad doesn't work with -rc2-mm1 too (usually I use a USB mouse,
> so I didn't notice before). Here's what dmesg says about it:
>
> Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x926eb1, caps: 0x804719/0x0
> input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
>
> The box is an Asus L5D (x86-64).

Actually, it works on the console (ie with gpm), but X is unable to use it,
apparently. However it used to be, at least on 2.6.14-git9 (this is the latest
non-mm kernel I've been able to test quickly on this box).

Marc, does your touchpad work with gpm?

Rafael