2.6.0-0.test3.1.31, mice and acpi

[Joshua Legbandt]

No bites? Am I the only person having these troubles with the
2.6.0-0.test3.1.31 rpms?

[top posting only because it really makes since to this time...]

-Josh

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 22:05, Joshua Legbandt wrote:
> I've installed Arjan's 2.6.0-0.test3.1.31 kernel onto my laptop (a
> compaq presario 2715US) and it seems to be working almost flawlessly. I
> say almost because I have found 2 issues:
> 
> 1st my PS/2 touchpad does not seem to be working. dmesg shows that it is
> found, but it is not working on the command line (with gpm) or with X.
> The relevant dmesg output is:
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
>  Firware: 5.8
>  Sensor: 29
>  new absolute packet format
>  Touchpad has extended capability bits
>  -> multifinger detection
>  -> palm detection
> input: Synaptics Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
> 
> My usb mouse works fine after modifying /etc/modprobe.conf after
> changing the alias for usb-controller from usb-uhci to uhci-hcd
> 
> 2nd, the important acpi modules (battery, processor, thermal and ac)
> don't load, and I don't understand enough about modprobe.conf editing to
> make them work. With the 2.4 kernel + acpi patches, I had just compiled
> them into kernel, but if I can stick with an rpm'd kernel I'd be
> happier. After boot, I'm able to load the modules with the following
> commands:
> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko
> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname
> -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko
> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko
> /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/`/bin/uname -r`/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko
> 
> I've added the following to my rc.local to get them to work, but I think
> there should be a cleaner way of loading those modules:
> kern_maj_ver=`/bin/uname -r | /bin/awk -F. '{print $2}'`
> kern_ver=`/bin/uname -r`
> if [ "$kern_maj_ver" = "6" ]
>   then
>     echo "/sbin/insmod
> /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/battery.ko"
>     echo "/sbin/insmod
> /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/processor.ko"
>     echo "/sbin/insmod
> /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko"
>     echo "/sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$kern_ver/kernel/drivers/acpi/ac.ko"
> fi
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?
> -Josh
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Joshua Legbandt <jtlegbandt at earthlink.net>