Bug 435 - Please provide kernel option 'psmouse.proto=imps' to enable using mouse & touchpad during install on a laptop
Summary: Please provide kernel option 'psmouse.proto=imps' to enable using mouse & tou...
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Donald
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Keywords: USABILITY
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Reported: 2011-03-18 17:12 CET by Dick Gevers
Modified: 2011-12-09 19:58 CET (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: mageia-gfxboot-theme
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Description Dick Gevers 2011-03-18 17:12:56 CET 
Description of problem:

Installing Mageia on a laptop with a synaptics touchpad and separate mouse, the
kernel option above is needed otherwise the mouse doesn't work, as per
http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/index.php?title=Docs/Hardware&action=edit&section=31
(both in installation and when booting).

However one has to find it out for oneself, for example at above URL.

It would be more userfriendly if this option was provided in the installation
(and preferably kept when installing bootloader).

Ideally it should also be explained why it is needed at the time the option is
offered, of course.

I wouldn't call it a debug option, because I need it on my laptop always.

Reproducible:

Present in various Mandriva versions and Mageia Alpha1 and Alpha2.

Just install without it and one misses the mouse.

Hardware used: Compaq Evo N1020v.

cf.: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=47252



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Steps to Reproduce:
Ahmad Samir 2011-03-28 02:03:25 CEST

Source RPM: gfxboot => mageia-gfxboot-theme

Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2011-04-04 20:47:18 CEST 
Same as before in mdv: We don't know when to put that option...

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud

Comment 2 Dick Gevers 2011-04-04 20:55:42 CEST 
When touchpad plus mouse are detected !?

Or offer the option when a mouse is detected on a laptop?
Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-07 19:50:48 CEST 
@ Dick

Just to be sure: Did anything improve since 2011-04-04)?

Keywords: (none) => USABILITY
CC: (none) => marja11

Comment 4 Dick Gevers 2011-10-07 19:53:51 CEST 
No I don't think so. AFAIK the installer hasn't changed. So it should still be valid. But I can't verify at the moment, as my laptop died.
Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-23 17:56:18 CEST 
@ John Balcaen

Assigning to you for you to decide what to do with this enhancement request

Assignee: bugsquad => balcaen.john

Comment 6 John Balcaen 2011-10-23 18:52:23 CEST 
@ Marja
In fact Donald is in charge of it :) i'm just holding it as a mentor :)

CC: (none) => balcaen.john
Hardware: i586 => All
Assignee: balcaen.john => watersnowrock

Comment 7 Donald 2011-10-23 19:00:17 CEST 
Well, would it be technically possible to have a detection for laptop + external mouse?
If so, then I would push for having this enabled - an option could be added when the mouse if first used in the installer if that would help?
Comment 8 Donald 2011-10-23 19:02:48 CEST 
Would having a addition in the release notes be of use, because as is stated on the mdv bug, this case isn't the most common.
Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2011-10-23 19:42:06 CEST 
(In reply to comment #8)
> Would having a addition in the release notes be of use, because as is stated on
> the mdv bug, this case isn't the most common.

If it can't be solved, than, IMHO, it should be well documented. The release notes seem a good place to me.
Comment 10 Dick Gevers 2011-11-11 23:17:43 CET 
For Sandy Bridge laptop it does not apply. For Compaq Evo N1020v - if any survive - I'm guessing it would help.
Comment 11 Dick Gevers 2011-12-09 19:58:37 CET 
Anyone reopen if you feel the need.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => OLD
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