An approach taken by Turgut Kalfaoglu, posted here earlier, was to download
and recompile the original kernel. I'm downloading the 2.4.4 kernel now,
so we will see how it goes. According to Turgut , the directions made it a
piece of cake and now everything is working just fine.
http://www.kernel.org/
At 02:56 PM 5/11/2001 +0200, Luca Dentella wrote:
>hellO!
>
>
> > This is becoming a FAQ :-)
>
>I'm sorry... I asked this in many forums and ng but noone (except you) was
>able to give me an answer. :-)
>
> >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.
>
>So let me see if I undestood: folks at Mandrake, as therir developers had
>bad hardware, "broke" (what does this exactly mean? They simply removed? Or
>changed?) PS/2 code in the kernel image used for installation... is this
>right?
>
> > 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.
>
>Fabulous :-/
>
> > 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.
>
>Good! I did it (withour reinstalling, I simply changed /dev/mouse link to
>the serial device and modified the line in XF86Config-4)... but it's useless
>have a LapTop if I could use X only with an external mouse! Is there
>anything I can do to fix it? Maybe downloading new kernel source and
>recompiling? At which level Mandrake folks changed PS/2 support?
>Thanks!
