Re: PS/2 mouse driver panics during boot - 2.6.8.1

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Aug 30 2004 - 08:11:06 EST


On Monday 30 August 2004 06:50 am, Peter Horton wrote:
> Every other time I boot my x86 box the kernel panics in
> psmouse_interrupt() because ->protocol_handler is NULL. Looks like
> psmouse_connect() runs before ->protocol_handler is set and generates an
> interrupt from the mouse. The mouse driver is built in, and I'm not
> passing it any parameters.
>

Hi,

That should be fixed when Vojtech pushes next round of input updates
to Linus, in the meantime you can try disabling USB legacy emulation
in BIOS or try building psmouse modular and loading it after all USB
modules.

--
Dmitry
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