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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:30 am    Post subject: [solved] How to set psmouse rate? (fix mouse in Flybook) Reply with quote

I've Flybook A33i. It has a bug with built-in pointer device based on internal ps2-port. It jumps from one part of screen to another and clicks mouse buttons randomly when trying to click or move pointer.

In Ununtu (same for Xubuntu and Lubuntu) it can be solved by the following method:
psmouse rate=100 to /etc/modprobe.d/options
rmmod psmouse && modprobe psmouse to /etc/rc.local

But Gentoo has no psmouse mod...

Is there a way to fix it?


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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If you don't have a psmouse module, you probably have it built-in to your kernel. If it's built-in, you should be able to pass it the rate parameter by adding "psmouse.rate=100" (without quotes) to your kernel line in your grub configuration file (or whatever boot manager you're using).

Alternatively, you can compile psmouse as a module. Go into your kernel configuration, go to Device Drivers > Input device support > Generic input layer > Mice, and set "PS/2 mouse" to <M>. Then, rebuild your kernel, reboot, and try removing and re-loading the module as you were doing before. Once you're happy with the module options, note that under Gentoo, you should create a file in "/etc/modprobe.d" with a filename ending in ".conf", and you need to start the line with "options". (This is apparently different from Ubuntu's requirements.) So, for example, you could create "/etc/modprobe.d/mouse.conf" with the contents:
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options psmouse rate=100

Then run "update-modules" and reboot.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i have virtually nothing to add to that, except some bits regarding baselayout-2/openrc

if you're on baselayout-2/openrc, the module configuration is slightly different

you'd add this to the bottom of /etc/conf.d/modules

Code:

modules_2_6="${modules_2_6} psmouse"
module_psmouse_args_2_6="rate=100"


I've had the issue you describe; for me it was fixed by adding proto=imps rather than a rate setting.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 2:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kernel parameter in GRUB psmouse.rate=100 didn't help.

Kernel parameter psmouse.proto=imps solved it.

Thank you.
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