On Sunday 02 February 2003 11:55 am, you wrote:
> On Sunday 02 February 2003 11:30 am, you wrote:
> > I would love to find out why installing a serial mouse on my laptop
> > (RH7.2, 2.4.xx) means touching the touchpad freezes the keyboard.
> >
> > Serial mouse works fine. Keyboard works fine, but touch the touchpad
> > accidentally and you are locked out.
> >
> > Pretty clearly the touchpad is using some PS/2 protocol and they fight,
> > but it is very irritating. Solution up to now has been reboot.
>
> My longshot guess is that there is a problem with interrupts.
> You might get a hint from saying
>
> cat /proc/interrupts
>
> Other ideas anybody?
Here's that:
[rob@localhost rob]$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 5357998 XT-PIC timer
1: 70881 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 419791 XT-PIC serial
5: 1957123 XT-PIC ESS Solo1
10: 238 XT-PIC usb-uhci, Texas Instruments PCI1225, Texas
Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
14: 106617 XT-PIC ide0
15: 3 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0