SOLVED Mouse and touchpad stopped working after kernel up...

[alloydog]

With BeatrIX, a Debian based distirbution, I just recently upgraded the kernel (using Synaptic - but the results were the same using apt-get), from 2.6.7 to 2.6.12-7-686.
Both the mouse and touchpad on my laptop stopped working.

On the same laptop a while back, I went from 2.6.7 to 2.6.12-6-686 with no problems.

After this new problem, I did a clean installation and today upgraded from 2.6.7 to 2.6.12-8-686 and again the mouse & touchpad do not work.

I think it is something to do with the modules, as the contents of the respecttive module files are different:

modules-2.6.7
8250
ac97_codec
af_packet
agpgart
ali_agp
amd_k7_agp
amd64_agp
apm power_off=1
ati_agp
ds
e100
efficeon_agp
evdev
ide_scsi
ieee1394
intel_agp
intel_mch_agp
ipv6
joydev
lp
md5
mii
nvidia_agp
ohci_hcd
ohci1394
parport
parport_pc
pcmcia_core
reiserfs
rtc
sbp2 serialize_io=1
serial_core
sis_agp
snd-pcm-oss
sound
sworks_agp
tsdev
uart401
uhci_hcd
usb_storage
usbcore
usbhid
via_agp
via82cxxx_audio
via82cxxx_audio
yenta_socket

and

2.6.12-8-686
ac97_codec
af_packet
agpgart
apm power_off=1
bitblit
capability
cdrom
cfbcopyarea
cfbfillrect
cfbimgblt
commoncap
e100
evdev
fbcon
font
i2c_core
i2c_viapro
ide_cd
ide_core
ide_disk
ide_generic
ide_scsi
ieee1394
mii
mousedev
ohci_hcd
ohci1394
parport
parport_pc
pcmcia
pcmcia_core
processor
reiserfs
rsrc_nonstatic
scsi_mod
softcursor
sound
soundcore
tileblit
uart401
uhci_hcd
unix
usbcore
usbhid
vesafb
via_agp
via82cxxx
via82cxxx_audio
yenta_socket

(I have rearranged them alphabetically, to hopefully help with comparing the lists)

[fingers99]

I'm guessing that you used the kernel images to do upgrade?

The difference between the modules is pretty alarming. I'd be inclined to post to one of the Debian forums such as Debian help with details of your mouse and touchpad and maybe with the results of running diff on the lists.

[alloydog]

Fixed it.
I just did search for linux-headers-2.6.12-6-686 and got :
http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/in ... reezy.main

I put http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ into Synaptic, and it worked.
The kernel has been updated and the mouse & touchpad still work.

I'm still intrigued to know why they stopped working with the newer kernels - I think it is something to do with the modules, possibley, as the two files, modules-2.6.7 and modules-2.6.12-7-686/-8-686 were quite different. I'll look at what modules-2.6.12-6-686 lists later.