On September 27, 2004 04:40 pm, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 19:46, Derek Broughton wrote: > > > 'modprobe psmouse' (will also insert hid and evdev, maybe others) > > Instant success! They are now both working simultaneously again. > 'psmouse' is not blacklisted so I've still no idea why it stopped being > loaded at boot-time. If I fiigure it out I'll post here.
I'm certain it has to do with order of initialization. Perhaps if you created a script /etc/hotplug/usb/mousedev which would just do "modprobe psmouse" (I'm pretty sure there's actually a better way to do that...). I had hoped that by compiling psmouse into the kernel it would fix the problem, but that just leaves me with less flexibility... > Re: your set-up, it seems counter-intuitive to me but the following modules > are blacklisted in my set-up and I had, (and now have again), both working > no problem. > > usb-uhci > usbcore usb-uhci is blacklisted because the one you're actually going to use is probably uhci_hcd (they perform the same function). The alternative (and probably used in your 2.4 kernel) method would be an alias in /etc/modules.conf. usbcore is blacklisted, iirc, to prevent it being loaded by any device directly. It is always loaded as a dependency of usb-uhci or uhci-hcd. Now, you've got me thinking that perhaps uhci-hcd should be blacklisted for the same reason - perhaps not. The system probably can't actually recognize a USB connection until uhci is installed. > #these drivers are very simple, the HID drivers are usually preferred > usbmouse > usbkbd If usbmouse is used (which depends on hidbp instead of hid and evdev) my USB mouse only works in a vertical orientation. Not too useful :-) > Thanks for your time Derek. You're welcome. This is stuff I've been puzzling over for months. Note, you'll probably need to add psmouse to /etc/modules so that the touchpad is working next time you boot. -- derek
