On 12/6/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "And the answer is... 42."
>
> Turns out I was asking the wrong question. The whole problem about it
> is that the 2.6 kernels detect my mouse as a ImExPS/2 mouse and not as
> a ImPS/2.
>
> What I need is to find a way to tell the psmouse module (PS/2 Mouse
> Kernel Module) to exclude ImExPS/2 as a protocol for my mouse.
>
> I even tried to hack (unsuccessfully) the psmouse-base.c file in the
> kernel, so far, no luck in that. I'll google some more now. If you
> guys have any idea what to do, let me know.
Well, if you really want to try this path, I would say (in psmouse-base.c):
static int psmouse_extensions(struct psmouse *psmouse,
unsigned int max_proto, int set_properties)
{
int synaptics_hardware = 0;
return PSMOUSE_IMPS2;
...
-Richard
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raphael
>
> 2005/12/7, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On 12/6/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > How do you switch xorg.conf files between kernels? Here are the file
> >
> > With difficulty. :-)
> >
> > As others have said, /dev/input/mice is the _highly_ recommended
> > standard for 2.6. For protocol in the X.org configuration, this
> > should work with IMPS/2, ExplorerPS/2, or Auto.
> >
> > Also, do you have gpm running? If so, does it help if you turn it off??
> >
> > > The kernel configuration:
> >
> > Thanks, looks ok to me, although as others mentioned, /dev/psaux is
> > deprecated (but should still be functional).
> >
> > One thing that didn't show up due to the command I gave you is the
> > settings for CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X and
> > CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y. The configure help says these are
> > only used for digitizer tablets, but maybe they can have some other
> > effect as well. Maybe check and make sure these are not 0,0.
> >
> > I guess something else to try is to compile PS2 mouse support as a
> > module (CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=m), and see if rmmod'ing and modprobing it
> > makes any difference.
> >
> > If none of this helps, maybe "grep -i mouse /var/log/Xorg.0.log" will
> > give us some more ideas.
> >
> > -Richard
> >
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