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

Am 21. May, 2005 schwätzte Joseph Huber so:

> after a modprobe psmouse
>
> and adding "psmouse" to /etc/modules

Usually the problem I have is going back to 2.4 and needing to use
/dev/psaux again. Aha, looks like my /etc/modules already had psmouse in
it.

ciao,

der.hans

> 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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