Bugzilla – Bug 134690
Trust optical ps/2 mouse goes off at kernel boot (laser ligth goes off)
Last modified: 2006-01-10 14:14:16 UTC
Dear Novell I got a bug with my Trust optical ps/2 mouse that I beleve is a kernel driver issue. The problem is this: once grub start the kernel after few records I see the red ligth (laser) of my mouse turn off and the mouse is not more available. In order to get back work the mouse I must re-plug the ps/2 connector soon after the problem occured. If I follow this strange procedure to boot my PC everything works very well. Here is the xorg.conf of my mouse: Section "InputDevice" Driver "mouse" Identifier "Mouse[1]" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Name" "IMPS/2" Option "Protocol" "imps/2" Option "Vendor" "PS/2-Mouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection With windows os I do not have this bug and windows use his propetary driver Microsoft for standard ps/2 mouse. My PC is a PIV ASUS P4B533 with 1GB of memory. I will be happy to work with in order to fix this problem. SUSE LINUX is the best distro that I know. THANK YOU.
You're welcome :-) Vojtech, this is for you I guess.
Some cheap optical mice seem to react to the PSMOUSE_RESET_DIS command. If you edit /usr/src/linux/drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c and either comment out the uses of this command or replace them with PSMOUSE_RESET_BAT, does it help? Note: If you don't know how to compile your own kernel or edit C code, I can make a kernel RPM for you to test. Another, quicker, experiment would be to try to put "psmouse.proto=bare" on the kernel command line to see if it helps.
In reply to comment #2 Yes the mouse is a cheap one :). I can not edit that line becouse on my suse 10.0 I dont have src kernels and more I should not be able to do it ( I have never done before). If you make a kernel rpm for me I will test it within 8 hours. THANK YOU
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Note: If you don't know how to compile your own kernel or edit C code, I can make a kernel RPM for you to test. Yes Vojtech please if you give me the RPM I am ready to test it. In the forum where I am member there are other people with my same kind of mouse and sync problem. Once fixed this bug I can report to others how resolve this issue. Thank You.
in replay to comment #2 I don't know if it helps, I tryed to some work around and I discovered that if I run the boot CD dynebolic (I have an old version) the mouse works at 50% only wheel is out. With suse at boot time (blue screen), I selected f2 option and i tryed the command psmouse.proto=bare I don't know if that is the correct procedure to send kernel command. Let me know. :)
in replay my comment 5 Other work around with last version of dynebolic 1.4.1 the mouse is perfect. The system boot ok and mouse works. buttons, whell all ok
Created attachment 61327 [details] Patch to fix the turning off of the mouse This patch should fix the problem with the mouse turning off (I'll make a test RPM sometime later)
The patch is now in SuSE's kernel CVS head, so grab a kernel RPM from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD/ tomorrow or so, and it'll have the patch.