Re: ps/2 mouse under Linux on 760CD

[Brian Mahaffy <brianm@boi.hp.com>]

> 
> Brian Mahaffy writes:
> | You need to go into the PCMCIA sources and change the interupt scan routines
> | to search 15->13,11->0,12 instead of 15->0.  It is in modules/i82365.c
> | around line 400. 
> | 
> | If you aren't using PCMCIA, its probably something similar with some other
> | autoconfiged interupt using 12, /proc/interrupts will tell you.  You will
> | have to chase it down.
Lee Hetherington writes:
> 
> Nah.  With the version of PCMCIA services that I have, you can just put
> 
>       exclude irq 12
> 
> in your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file.  That should make PCMCIA avoid 12,
> leaving it free for the mouse.

Why solve something by a config opt when you can change the code! ;-)

Thanks for pointing this out Lee (Where were you when I was debugging
the kernel).  I'll have to see if I can try that out with the next PCMCIA
version that comes out.  'Spose I should read the documentation before I
read the code 8->.

...Brian

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