Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

>> :-). My kernel is most insulted. But I'm afraid I can't reboot for
>> another six months now, so it will have to wait. Besides, this kernel
>> is fine - I like it best of the many I have used. It's got nice smooth
>> electrons and a really shiny stack, with chromed interrupt vector hooks.

> Sure, but it remains old and buggy, a more recent version might
> handle your multiple pointing devices better.

It's not an old kernel - it's a nice kernel. The 2.6.recent series is
not stable on my machine - mouse motion tends to lock it up, probably
because I run SMP and preempt, and the finer grained locking in the
2.6 kernels tickles a bug somewhere that is shown up by my single cpu.
2.6.3 is usually alright for a couple of weeks work, but anything more
recent than that barely lasts a few hours.

It's probably a spurious irq from the hardware - as the machine ages it
seems to trigger the condition more frequently. I've more or less gone
back to 2.4 permanently on it, since I'm not doing kernel development
on it at the moment, but "just" writing papers. If I were doing
development, 2.6 would be bearable since I'd have to reboot frequently
anyway.

> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

I see. Nothing for usbmouse, though.

>> Sigh - somebody has made a mess there.

> From my XF86Config:

> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Buttons" "13"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
> Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"

That's your ps mouse for 2.6, no? But it wouldn't work under 2.4.
Or is it a real usb mouse? Maybe.

> Modules concerning mouse:

> usbmouse 5696 0
> usbcore 124816 7 usb_storage,usblp,usbmouse,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hc d



Peter