Adventures in Ubuntu Land: chasing the mouse
Finally got the PS/2 mouse up & working on Odin, my Compaq Presario laptop. The problem was simple, but it took a lot of researching, fumbling & Googling to find out about it.
The thing is, the 'psmouse' kernel module needs to be mounted with an option passed, that's all, so, you have to unload the module:
sudo modprobe -r psmouse ENTER
And then mount it once again, passing the option:
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps ENTER
That's it, the PS/2 pops back to life. Automate that so you don't have to type it each time that you reboot, and you are done.
Found the answer on this August 2006 Forum list archive: ps/2 mouse
Now the little laptop got a much, much useful, I finally got everything I was having already working on FreeBSD, but running Ubuntu (one might think that the other way around is how things should go, but...)
The thing is, the 'psmouse' kernel module needs to be mounted with an option passed, that's all, so, you have to unload the module:
sudo modprobe -r psmouse ENTER
And then mount it once again, passing the option:
sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps ENTER
That's it, the PS/2 pops back to life. Automate that so you don't have to type it each time that you reboot, and you are done.
Found the answer on this August 2006 Forum list archive: ps/2 mouse
Now the little laptop got a much, much useful, I finally got everything I was having already working on FreeBSD, but running Ubuntu (one might think that the other way around is how things should go, but...)
posted by hictio at 1:50 PM
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