Sometimes when I reboot my machine, the mouse does not work. I am using a parallel 100 zip drive and it is initialized in my rc.local with: /sbin/insmod parport /sbin/insmod ppa And I just noticed this curious message using dmesg: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2] parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use PS/2 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ this is the curious line ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using PS/2 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This one too scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface scsi : 1 host. Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.13 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table This seems to happen quite often and it takes a few reboots to get the mouse to work. I just noticed this message so it seems that by using lsmod to view installed modules and rmmod to remove the ppa and related modules that mouse control is restored. Is there any way to tell the ppa module not to probe my PS/2 mouse port. This is really annoying. My conf.modules is: alias eth0 3c59x alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias sound sb pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuf=1 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options sb io=0x240 irq=7 dma=0 mpu_io=0x300 Thanks, Juan -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
