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Two days ago, I installed a custom-compiled zen-sources kernel, which I've updated a few times since. It's been running fine and I've seen no problems with it, apart from its randomly poor handling of my touchpad.
When I installed the latest kernel, I rebooted, and the touchpad worked fine for about four hours. Then, I opened evince, and the mouse got stuck in the center of the screen. It took me five reboots to get the mouse to move again. Today the same happened when I opened firefox, but this time it only took one reboot. And now the mouse cursor is stuck in the center of my screen again. It appears that no mouse buttons or the trackpad work. Before I go on a rebooting spree, I was wondering if anyone has any hints?
Oh, and restarting X doesn't work either.
Thanks a lot to anyone who can provide an answer.
Edit: I don't think it's a problem with the kernel either; I compiled psmouse into it, with the elantech touchpad support option, and it's worked before, so I don't see how the kernel could be the problem.
Edit 2: I just rebooted twice and got the touchpad working again. Incidentally, I did a
dmesg|grep mousewhen the mouse was working and when it wasn't, and in both cases got
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice.
Last edited by RedScare (2009-11-24 04:11:05)
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try adding i8042.nomux=1 to your menu.lst. I hope it works for you.
They say that if you play a Win cd backward you hear satanic messages. That's nothing! 'cause if you play it forwards, it installs windows.
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Thanks a lot for the response, kjon, but unfortunately that's already in my kernel options:) Thanks for the suggestion though.
Could it be that the module is statically compiled into the kernel? But that shouldn't cause problems, right?
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So can anyone identify the problem? Or perhaps even point to a solution?
Thank you very much for any response.
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try disabling usb legacy on your bios...
probably you might wanna look options like usb.handcuff --or something like that--. I'd the same issues with my good n' ol' toshiba, but I forgot most of the options I used on grub to make that laptop boot.
They say that if you play a Win cd backward you hear satanic messages. That's nothing! 'cause if you play it forwards, it installs windows.
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I googled usb.handcuff and didn't find anything:) Any place where I could get a reference for these options?
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I don't remember exactly. However, when I bought that toshiba I started playing with noacpi and after that, I proceed to perform a more 'detailed' debug of the issue. Try that, boot with noacpi and discard or confirm that it is an energy issue. Try disabling your usb ports and so on. Have a look at your dmesg for any weird message.
Luck!
They say that if you play a Win cd backward you hear satanic messages. That's nothing! 'cause if you play it forwards, it installs windows.
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Try to add this to /etc/modprobe.conf:
options usbcore autosuspend=0Offline
usbcore is compiled into the kernel:). But I think I can still add that as a kernel option, right? so I would add usbcore.autosuspend=0, right?
Thank you very much.
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yes. You can do it.
They say that if you play a Win cd backward you hear satanic messages. That's nothing! 'cause if you play it forwards, it installs windows.
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Ok, well eventually I found the real problem, and it's actually pretty contrived:
So first I installed the zen kernel with minimal customization, and on top of it installed the nvidia drivers.
I then proceeded to reinstall the zen kernel with most things compiled into it. One of these things was the nvidia framebuffer driver.
Compiling the nvidia framebuffer driver into the kernel apparently conflicts with the proprietary nvidia driver, and so that was causing my mouse problems. That also explains the random nature of the problem.
I solved the problem by compiling the nvidia framebuffer driver as a module.
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