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Slack 12.2 PS/2 mouse won't work....

Hello all. I've just come from version 12 to 12.2 and I'm suddenly having issues with a basic PS/2 mouse. I've been searching for over two hours and I've made multiple adjustments to xorg.conf with no luck. Apparently, I'm more of a newbie than I thought.

Would someone be so kind as to give me a hand? Has anyone else had this sort of issue with 12.2?

From CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT

Quote:

On many systems, the xf86-input-synaptics driver requires the psmouse kernel
kernel module be loaded without any special options. This poses a problem on a
default Slackware installation, as /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse causes the psmouse
module to load with the imps protocol. This is easily fixed though :-)
First, edit /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse so that it looks like this (note
that we're simply commenting out the last line):
# PS/2 mouse support:
# The default options when the psmouse module is loaded will completely
# break the mouse if you change consoles with several models of KVM
# switches. Therefore, we'll have it use the imps protocol here, which
# is a more basic protocol that is less likely to cause problems with
# the mouse. If you'd rather use the kernel default options, just
# comment out the line below. If you'd rather choose your own options,
# then edit the line below as desired.
#options psmouse proto=imps
Next, unload and reload the psmouse module (do this as root):
modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse

Thanks so much...

Merci Allend.

I'll be printing out Changes and Hints if not tattooing it to my forehead (backwards of course).

Note for future viewers, this did not entirely solve the issue, though it was still of great help. The final solution lies at the following Link. THanks so much. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ack...-742582/

Hi,

That's one of the reasons not to have multiple threads that are on different forums. You waste other peoples time by not keeping things within one thread. :(

I'll mark this.