Re: USB mouse issue on PCG-GRV616

Christian Habich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.hardware.sony
Message-ID <[email protected]>
... cool bananas! Everything works perfectly now!

Thanks a million

Christian

--On Monday, May 26, 2003 12:14:50 PM +1000 George Fong 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I think that you will find that Andy Grimberg's pre-compiled kernel will
> answer all of the issues of acpi. You can find the information and files
> at  either:
>
> http://www.bardicgrove.org/~tykeal/distributables/
>
> or preferably at a mirror site at:
>
> http://mirror.insue.com
>
> Cheers
> George
>
> On Mon, 26 May 2003 08:17 am, John Andersen wrote:
>> On Saturday 24 May 2003 11:40 pm, Christian Habich wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm running RH9 out of the box on this notebook and everything is
>> > running quite smoothly except the following issues:
>> >
>> > ACPI is not working (because RH uses APM by default)
>> > 2nd PCMCIA Slot is not working
>> >
>> >
>> > Does anybody have an idea? This issue is driving me crazy!!
>>
>> With the modern Sony machines ACPI is not a choice, its a
>> requirement.  You will find all sorts of thing start working
>> automatically once you get a properly configured acpi.  Most of these
>> items
>> end up sharing a single interrupt which is what acpi will manage
>> for you.
>>
>> Usb, modem, sound, memstick and firewire will all work together
>> once you get acpi properly configured.
>>
>> The fact that you can get one or two of these working with only
>> apm is not unexpected, but, as you noticed, it is flaky.
>>
>> I believe  the mouse may be related to an Xfree issue, with
>> acpi it may show up somewhere else than where you are
>> expecting it, such as /dev/mice /dev/pointerX or some such.
>
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