Fyi, Adam. ----- Forwarded message from Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz> ----- From: Adam Bogacki <afb@paradise.net.nz> To: slug@slug.org.au Cc: wellylug@lists.wellylug.co.nz Subject: Re: /dev/mouse & /dev/dsp missing! Mail-Followup-To: slug@slug.org.au, wellylug@lists.wellylug.co.nz X-message-Flag: Don't you wish you were using Free Software? http://fsf.org X-uptime: 22:04:17 up 15 min, 3 users, load average: 0.16, 0.46, 0.46 Thanks Jason, I tried that .. > /dev/mouse is depreciated. All it's supposed to be is a link to /dev/psaux > as far as I recall but on my system it doesn't exist either. I'd guess it > was removed as it's not supposed to be used any more. The most recommended > thing to change it to would be /dev/input/mice as this reads from all mice > that the system knows of so you don't have to manually specify each one you > attach to the system. .. but still no cursor. @#$! Not only that, but I don't seem to be able to enter init 3 via Alt-F* or typing 'init 3' at boot prompt so I'm using mutt in the top left two-thirds of the screen .. better than nothing. > What sound modules were you using previously? alsa or oss? Since oss is > depreciated I'd guess also but then I hav no idea why you've got mplayer set > to play via oss rather than alsa. ALSA - but I can't find alsa modules in /etc/modules (attached) - are they missing ? > > If you are using alsa like me. I had alsa sound work fine but not programs > that still tried to use oss devices after my last transition. The alsa sound > modules were loaded but not the oss modules that provide backwards > compatibility with oss sound devices. Try loading, snd-mixer-oss and > snd-pcm-oss (modprobe snd-mixer-oss, modprobe snd-mixer-oss) and see if that > makes /dev/dsp appear. If so add those modules to your /etc/modules file so > they are loaded on next boot. Hmm .. tried that too but still received the /dev/dsp error message from mplayer. I think I have to sleep on this - it always happens when other things are also coming to a head. Adam Bogacki, afb@paradise.net.nz # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored. printer apm usb-uhci input usbkbd keybdev binfmt_aout binfmt_misc bsd_comp ppp_synctty ppp_deflate ip_conntrack ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack_irc ip_tables ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_MIRROR iptable_filter iptable_mangle ipt_unclean ipt_state ipt_owner ipt_multiport analog agpgart nbd raid0 raid1 lvm-mod multipath isa-pnp soundcore sound audio msdos affs nfsd nls_cp1250 nls_cp852 nls_iso8859-2 ramfs tulip psmouse sermouse vsxxxaa swsusp bttv video1394 usbmouse uhci-hcd usb-storage ----- End forwarded message -----
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