Re: kernel 2.6.x, no mouse, i8042???

[Lothar Roth <lroth@atis.uka.de>]

Valentine Kouznetsov wrote:
> Hi,
> I post already that I cannot get my mouse work in any 2.6 kernel. Searching 
> kernel archive I found discussion about i8042. I would appreciate if someone 
> will help me to find out what is wrong with all of these.
> 
> My problem is trivial, no mouse at all, in console and X modes. No error 
> messages generated by kernel. Mouse is PS/2 as touchpad on Compaq Evo N600c
> laptop. Kernel says: "mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice"
> 
> Following discussion about similar problem a few people suggested to look at 
> i8042.nomux option. Well, I did. First of all I found that loading kernel 
> without any option gave me the following output:
> i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.0.
> 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
> serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> which I consider to be suspisious since 4 aux ports are on the same irq?
> 
> Loading kernel with nomux option gave me:
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> but still no mouse. I also tried noaux option which only detect keyboard.
> I tried /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice for all of these cases with no success. 
> What is also strange that trying /dev/input/mouse[0-X] gave oops for gpm 
> saying there is no such device???
> 
> For interesting parties I attach dmesg outputs. If someone want me to try 
> anything else I can give a shot to figure/fix this problem.
> 
> I'm not on a list, please CC me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Valentine.

Hi,

I had a similar problem with recent kernel 2.6.x and gpm.
Solution : the psmouse module is missing
   modprobe psmouse
and the mouse is immediately available, no restart of gpm necessary !
lsmod shows that noone (count == 0) is using the module !
Removing the module and the mouse is away.

Hope this my help you,
Lothar