This is becoming a FAQ :-) Mandrake broke the PS/2 code because their
developers had weird keyboards with empty PS/2 ports that were causing
everything to lock up during boot time since they weren't using those
ports. So they disabled it.
Some folks have been able to get it to work, but most folks with Thinkpads
( only 5% of the "market" according to Mandrake) are not able to get their
trackpoints or PS/2 mice to work.
The workaround is to pick up a cheap serial mouse and just plug it into the
serial port. Mandrake will spot it during boot time and you should be good
to go.
At 10:29 PM 5/10/2001 +0200, Luca Dentella wrote:
>Hello!
>On my LapTop (IBM 380ED) I installed few months ago Mandrake 7.2... I
>remember the installation process was perfect: the installer recognized all
>my hardware (please note: it didn't ask me about the mouse: when the
>installer GUI appeared it worked!) and everything was ok...
>Now I've just downloaded Mandrake 8... the first operation has been
>"upgrade" but after this process my mouse didn't work...
>So I decided to format the HD and start with a full installation...
>In the first steps the mouse didn't work... when I was asked about it, I
>chose Standard PS/2 mouse and in the next step the mouse worked fine.
>After installation and rebooting mouse didn't work anymore: when Aurora
>starts I can see the mouse pointer but I can't move it... the same when I
>start XFree...
>In the log I can see this message:
>
>**) Mouse1: Protocol: "PS/2"
>(**) Mouse1: Core Pointer
>(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such device.
>(WW) Mouse1: cannot open input device
>(==) Mouse1: Buttons: 3
>(**) Mouse1: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3TimeOut: 50
>(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux No such device.
>(WW) Mouse1: cannot open input device.
>
>The mouse section in XF86Config-4 is this:
>
>Identifier "Mouse1"
>Driver "mouse"
>Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
>Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
>Option "Emulate3Buttons"
>Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
>
>In the old 7.2 I had XFree 3 but in its config file (XF86Config) the section
>was almost the same...
>Which is my problem?
>Thanks for support!
