psmouse module is not loaded when I hold down a key on boot (when GRUB2 says "loading vmlinuz"), and, in its turn, the PS/2 touchpad doesn't work. Latest mainline kernel, latest stable one and probably many older ones. I guess i8042's buffer gets full and that confuses drivers somehow. On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Andrey Moiseev <o2g.org.ru@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is an ancient bug, I noticed it since I bought my notebook. > Synaptics PS/2 touchpad is not detected and is not shown in > /dev/input/event* if I hold a keyboard key down when booting just > started. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html