Re: 2.6.12.5: psmouse mouse detection doesn't work

[jfannin@gmail.com (Joseph Fannin)]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 06:42:23AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> At boot time my Logitech mouse is detected as
>
> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0001 Version=0000
> N: Name="PS/2 Generic Mouse"
> P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> H: Handlers=event1 ts0 mouse0
> B: EV=7
> B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0
> B: REL=3
>
> After manually reloading psmouse I get the expected
>
> I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0002 Version=0049
> N: Name="PS2++ Logitech Mouse"
> P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
> H: Handlers=event1 ts0 mouse0
> B: EV=7
> B: KEY=f0000 0 0 0 0
> B: REL=3
>
> Using psmouse_noext=1 at boot time does not help.
>
> How comes that this doesn't work on the first run?
>
> I asked this more than a year ago, and somebody posted
> a fix, but obviously it wasn't accepted.
>
> What needs to be done to fix this?

    If psmouse is a module, you'd need to pass proto=bare as a module
parameter rather than on the kernel command line.  Check `modinfo
psmouse`.

    Are you sure proto=imps hasn't found its way into
/etc/modprobe.conf or so?  I could imagine a distribution shipping
this way.

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