Hello,

I have an HP ze4145 notebook. I installed LFS 4.0 on it and I had a problem with the synaptics ps/2 touchpad right from the start. If I did a simple cat /dev/mouse (link to psaux) the computer froze. I read someplace that it didn't actually froze, it just 'blocked' the keyboard so that I couldn't type anything.

Out of luck, I tried to play with it. I built most of the kernel as modules and I noticed the moment I did modprobe usbcore and then modprobe usb-ohci the mouse would work!

I re-compiled the kernel with the 2 USB modules built-in (no longer modules). The computer booted and once it got at the console login, I couldn't write anything.
I re-compiled the kernel back, with the usbcore and usb-ohci as modules and I created a script in /etc/rc.d/init.d to load the modules at startup, as the last thing the boot process would do before the login prompt (/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S99usb-start). The computer 'blocked' the keyboard again.

So, as of now, I manually load the two modules after login, before doing anything else. Note I can't just run my script (the computer blocks) but I have to modprobe the two, in order.

The script I created does nothing else but
!/bin/sh
/sbin/modprobe usbcore
/sbin/modprobe usb-ohci

I have (most) of the entires in the /dev/usb/, such as the busses, two mice, two joysticks, one keyboard, one printer and one scanner. Once I get the usb filesystem mounted, it actually works. So far, I successfully connected a digital camera (IXUS 330) and a scanner (LiDE 30) and did things with them.

Any ideas?

Virgil
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