On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 09:20:26PM +0100, jbradford@dial.pipex.com wrote:
> One of my 486 laptops has a special port on the side, for a dedicated trackball. I always assumed that it was electrically identical to the standard PS/2 mouse port, which is also present.
>
> With 2.2.x, (I haven't tried 2.4.x on this machine), both the dedicated trackball and a standard external PS/2 mouse work fine, using /dev/psaux.
>
> With 2.5.40, however, the behavior is as follows:
>
> Booting:
>
> With no pointing devices connected, just the port is detected:
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60, 0x64 irq 12
This is OK.
> With the dedicated trackball connected, it also gets detected:
> input: PS/2 Generic mouse on isa0060/serio1
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60, 0x64 irq 12
Also OK.
> Same with a PS/2 mouse, it also gets detected:
> input: PS/2 Generic mouse on isa0060/serio1
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60, 0x64 irq 12
Also OK.
> Once booted:
>
> Hot plugging either the dedicated trackball or a PS/2 mouse generates a message on connection:
Good, this is expected.
> Just to clarify, I am not trying to use them both at the same time.
Not sure if that would work, it might - depends on the notebook keyboard
controller hardware.
> X also works with the external PS/2 mouse,
Good.
> but not the dedicated trackball.
What are the exact symptoms? Does gpm work? Does cat /dev/psaux work? Does cat
/dev/input/mice work? What does cat /proc/bus/input/devices say in the
case it doesn't work? ....
> Any suggestions?
Just questions at this time ...
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