[OT] little psmouse question

[Daniel Mróz]

Dnia 15-09-2004, śro o godzinie 17:36 +0200, havner napisał(a):
> > > Is there any way to run psmouse when it was plugged after the system
> > > bootup? From my observions these mice must be plugged during bios
> > > startup to work.
> > psmouse kernel module or PS/2 mouse? :)
> > Sometimes mouse reinit is enough. Try 'service gpm restart' for example
> > or 'rmmod psmouse; modprobe psmouse'. Should work also from X Window.
> That's not it, I know how to configure ps mouse, but this steps makes
> sense only when the mouse was plugged during bios startup. If not there
> is no way to force it to work.
Mine works (A4Tech OK-520, AMI BIOS, MB ECS). Checked when I booted
Linux before I noticed that my mouse hasn't been pluged in. 'rmmod-
modprobe' and 'service gpm restart' brought my mouse to life after 
'hot-plugin' :)


Regards
Beorn