Hi, with mandrake 10.0 (official and community) there is apparently a problem with some motherboards (seems to be mainly asus, mine is A7V8X-X) where the mouse doesn't work when using the 2.6 kernel. I have heard that the way to fix this is to use the 2.4 kernel. Now my question is, have other people using other distros had problems using the mouse as well under the 2.6 kernel? I'm curious to try fedora or something else but I don't want to deal with my mouse being locked again and having to unplug my keyboard and mouse every time I boot up linux. I really wonder if this is an isolated problem to mandrake or a larger problem. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
-calimer

What kind of mouse do you have? Is it configured corectly? check the X config file and take a look at the Section "InputDevice". If kernel 2.4 works fine with your configuration, it could be that you need Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" in X config for kernel 2.6. And yes, fedora 2 works fine with my mouse ;-)

It's a standard ps/2 mouse.
-calimer

My PS/2 wheelmouse wouldn't work properly in Mandrake 10 CE if I selected anything other than the default "Any PS/2 and USB mice" option when installing.
I've since learnt not to change from that default when installing and now all is fine with my little plastic rodent.
Your problem could be more of a Mandrake 10 problem rather than a kernel 2.6 problem.

Actually, I don't think so. I'm having the same problem with Fedora Core 2 and Redhat 9 with kernel 2.6.5.
It gets even worse when I've tried 3 different mice (1 PS/2 and 2 USB) and 2 of them (USB ones) worked fine for a while only (Until I disconnected and reconnected them). Now, none of them work.
I've searched high and low, left and right and all solutions point to the Input Drivers FAQ , which simply does not work for me.
However this is only my home system. I have a perfectly functional laptop at work running FC2, which is weird once again.

I must note that my home system (along with all the mice) works PERFECTLY with RH9 and kernel 2.4.26 and Windows XP too..

I've read somewhere that moving some of the mouse/keyboard code into the kernel was not a smart move. Right about now, I'm inclined to agree...

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RMO

the scroll wheel on the ps2 mouse of my desktop doesn't seem to work with the 2.6 kernel (can't scroll but I can click, and it's not a xconfig problem since the same x configuration has no problems with 2.4x kernels on the same machine). The external ps2 mouse attached to my laptop works flawlessly with 2.6, though. I guess it's hit or miss.