after a modprobe psmouse and adding "psmouse" to /etc/modules joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Huber" To: Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 3:23 PM Subject: 2.6.8.2-686 kernel and ... where are the mice?? > Someone toss the cat out... > > Following an "incident" this morning with aptitude I had to reinstall the > whole system (Debian). After putting 2.4.27-1-386 on from CD I added > 2.6.8-2-686. > > Problem: under 2.4 X works find but when I boot it 2.6 X won't start. The > message is > > (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > no such device. > > I looked around on google and found lots of people with the same problem - > but nothing that seems to be resolving the issue. > > Tis true... the only thing I've got when booting 2.6 is > /dev/input/event0 (seems to be the keyboard)? > /dev/input/event1 (not sure what this is) > > All of this it a bit curious... I was using some flavor of the 2.6 kernel > (up until about 6 hours ago) and don't remember doing anything other than > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6... and away I went at the time. > > > Can someone shed some light on where my mice might suddenly have taken > tohiding out when I boot 2.6?? > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss