Branden Robinson wrote: > I've lost control of my mouse. The touchpad and the eraser-head mouse-like > devices on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 4000) are completely non-responsive > under X, and the PS/2 mouse that I've got plugged into the back of the > computer goes completely nonlinear and nonfunctional with the switch to the > "ati" driver. I was wondering if this sounds at all familiar to either of > you, and if a solution is known. > > The relevant portion of my XF86Config-4 file is... > > ......... > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Mouse" > Driver "mouse" > Option "CorePointer" > Option "Protocol" "PS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" > EndSection > ......... > > ... and ls -l /dev/psaux gives me > ......... > crw------- 1 root root 10, 1 Dec 22 00:54 /dev/psaux > ......... > > This all seems pretty normal to me. > > However, I can't claim that this all is a controlled experiment. > In the time that my XFree86 4.0.1 was down with the attempted 4.0.2 > upgrade, I recompiled my kernel to Linux 2.2.18 and also tried installing > the Xig X package as well. The kernel recompile was with options that > had always worked for me on my 2.2.17 kernel, but it's always possible > that Xig left crud hanging around when I de-installed it that could > interfer with Xfree86 4.0.X.
Can't you try with 2.2.17 again? Did you by chance enable the New Input Layer in the 2.2.18 kernel? > Anyhow... obviously, with the kind of radical stuff I've done, there > is plenty of room for random, hard-to-figure-out errors. But if > either of you are aware of a known mouse issue with the ati driver > attempt, please let me know. (btw, I tried the "vga" driver as well -- > the same thing happened with the mouse) Display drivers and the mouse are orthogonal so this was to be expected. > Btw... do either of you have any experience with trying to get XFree86 > to provide output to a notebook's LCD screen and an external video > device (monitor, data projector, etc.) _simultaneously_? I've been > fighting with this for weeks. I'm starting to think that the r128 driver > that I had been using simply can't provide this capability. That's right. Michel -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ CS student and free software enthusiast Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc,i386) user \ member of XFree86 and The DRI Project
