Re: 2.6.8.2-686 kernel and ... the mice returned

after a modprobe psmouse

and adding "psmouse" to /etc/modules



joe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Huber" <joe.huber@cox.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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??
>
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