FC4, laptop, synaptics and ps/2 mouse
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Thu Jan 12 16:36:50 UTC 2006
oleksandr korneta wrote:
>
>
> on 01/12/2006 08:35 AM Thomas Fischer wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Wondering if anyone can help with a little problem that I have using
>> FC4 on a Dell Latitude c610 with the synaptics touchpad as well as a
>> standard PS/2 mouse.
>>
>> I am unable to plug-in a PS/2 mouse without the system loosing the
>> mouse and keyboard.
>
> I got synaptic touchpad and usb mouse. When I boot without mouse
> plugged in, everything works like a charm. I can turn off the touchpad
> and back on. I can plug the mouse and get it working. However if I
> boot the system with the mouse plugged the synaptics driver does not
> get loaded, and touchpad is recognized as generic wheel mouse.
> Obviously I'm screwed here because none of my settings for touchpad
> is working, and you cannot turn it off with the button, the mouse is
> working fine though.
>
> and here is part of my xorg
>
I don't know if this will help, but I had a similar problem on my Compaq
R4000. Turns out (and I found this out with Gentoo and not FC4) I had
to make the ps2mouse a kernel module and load it last after initializing
the USB devices instead of having it in the kernel to make mine work.
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
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