No mouse on Dell Inspirion 1100?

[David Gilbert]

>>>>> "Joe" == Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> writes:

Joe> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:32, David Gilbert wrote:
>> I just configured a Dell Inspirion 1100 laptop for a friend ... and
>> this laptop has a built in touch pad ... much like my dell.  It's
>> running -CURRENT cvsup'd as of Monday.  When it probes the mouse
>> (full -v boot below), it get's this error (boot -v'd)
>> 
>> pci0: <simple comms> at device 31.6 (no driver attached) unknown:
>> not probed (disabled) psmcpnp0 irq 12 on acpi0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard
>> controller (i8042)> port 0x66,0x62,0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0 atkbd0:
>> <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0 atkbd: the current kbd
>> controller command byte 0065 atkbd: keyboard ID 0x41ab (2) kbd0 at
>> atkbd0 kbd0: atkbd0, AT 101/102 (2), config:0x1, flags:0x3d0000
>> psm0: current command byte:0065 psm0: the aux port is not
>> functioning (-1).  unknown: not probed (disabled)
>> 
>> I'm somewhat at a loss ... as I really don't know how to proceed.
>> Help?

Joe> Add the following to /boot/device.hints, then reboot:

Joe> hint.psm.0.flags="0x1000"

This did not work.  A second suggestion that booting without ACPI
might help did not work either.

Dave.

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