2.5.68 and trouble with mouse setup on Notebook

hello,
I have an Dell Inspiron Notebook that has two pointer devices build in:
a Touchpad and a Trackstick (the mini Joystick placed in the keyboard area)

while boot work fine in kernels of the 2.4.x series the Stick does not work with a current development kernen (2.5.68)

The device just seems not there, no mention of it in the boot messages.

I get just

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
...
Found Synaptics Touchpad rev 5.7
input: PS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1

# ll /dev/input/
total 0
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      13,  63 Jan  1  1970 mice
crw-r--r--    1 root     root      13,  32 Jan  1  1970 mouse0

does anybody have an advice how to get the stick working?

thanks
Jens

Jens Ansorg <[email protected]>

I also have an Inspiron, the 8200. I am using one mouse device in X, /dev/input/mice and a USB mouse at times. My glidepoint, stick, and USB mouse all work. USB mouse can be unplugged/replugged at any time and still works.

This is with 2.5.67, 2.5.68 wants to immediately reboot on me.

Have you tried 2.5.67? If not, are you interested in my .config?

David