Thinkpad T43 strangeness

[Tobias Roth]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:56:42AM +0200, jedihobbes at gmail.com wrote:
> Alright, so I'm running 6.0-BETA4 on a Thinkpad T43, and I'd like to
> use tpb, which requires ACPI_IBM, which in turn only seems to work
> properly when I have "device ACPI" in my kernel conf. If I leave out
> ACPI in my kernel conf, then everything works hardware wise. When I
> enable ACPI, then ACPI_IBM and tpb work brilliantly...but the mouse
> doesn't work. I've disabled APIC in loader.conf to fix the
> suspend/restart problems (as per a recommendation on a site
> somewhere), but other then that everything else is fairly stock.
> Suggestions?

Any messages when you plug the mouse in or out? Are you running moused?
Do you see the problem under X or the console or both? Do other usb
devices work? Do you see usb related error messages during boot?

I have a T43 here that works perfectly with acpi, acpi_vide, acpi_ibm
and a mouse.

cheers, t.