Re: Synaptics and USB mouse conflict at boot time !?

From: Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli
Date: Tue Mar 02 2004 - 11:58:59 EST


On 12:40, martedì 2 marzo 2004, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2004 05:03 am, Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have a strange behaviour on my laptop: touchpad is not probed by the
> > kernel (2.6.3) *if* and only if at boot time the USB mouse is plugged in
> > ...
>
> It is usually caused by USB Legacy emulation - BIOS makes a USB mouse look
> like a PS/2 mouse. Look in your BIOS setup if there is an option to turn it
> off. Otherwise you will have to load ehci/uhci_hcd and hid modules before
> loading psmouse module as loading full-blown USB support disables that
> emulation.


perfect, now all works fine
thank you so much


BTW, can be usefull to add this tip in the "help" screen of input/mice and/or
usb

--
<?php echo ' Emiliano `AlberT` Gabrielli '."\n".
' E-Mail: AlberT_AT_SuperAlberT_it '."\n".
' Web: http://SuperAlberT.it '."\n".
' IRC: #php,#AES azzurra.com '."\n".'ICQ: 158591185'; ?>

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