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Re: mknod problem



I tought the mouse support had already been included in both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels included in the netinst cd ; anyway the GTK frontend should be usable with USB, serial and PS2 mices..

ciao

attilio

Davide Viti wrote:
~ # lsmod | grep mouse

doesn't show any matches, but something must have changed since
sarge-netinst because grep fails also there, but the "cat" command
against a fresh mknod-created "/dev/psaux" worked (I just verified that)
I tried the same set of commands on "/dev/input/mice" but it fail with
it as well.

Any ideas?

Ciao,
Davide



On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:08:56AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 03:45:34PM +0200, zinosat@tiscali.it wrote:

While I was doing some tests with debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso and
the gtk fe
I noticed the mouse was not working (it was certainly working with the official
sarge netinst).
Since no /dev/psaux was present,  i did

~ # mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1
~ # ls -l /dev/psaux

crw-r--r--  1 root  root  10,  1 Aug  2 10:48 /dev/psaux

~ # cat /dev/psaux
cat: /dev/psaux: No such device

Not sure if that is a bug or it is just me doing something wrong.

Is psmouse driver loaded?  I believe current 2.6 kernels export all mice
on the system combined in /dev/input/mice, which may make it a better
device to access the mouse through (at least simpler for configuration
in many cases).  /dev/psaux should still work though if the driver is
loaded.

Len Sorensen






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