Re: mouse config causes Xserver to crash
PROBLEM SOLVED
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On 10/14/05, Ted Kisner <tskisner.public@gmail.com> wrote:
> That would use the standard "mouse" X driver
> (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o), which should be installed if you
> have an xserver installed.
>
> I'm assuming that you have the proper kernel modules (usb, etc) installed?
> The mouse shows up in /prob/bus/usb/devices, correct?
>
Ah-hah. The driver is there, but the kernel modules aren't. Why would
I suddenly have no kernel modules related to a USB mouse? For some
reason the rt2500 (wireless card) module and nvidia modules were also
not being loaded. None of these were in /etc/modules. Strange. I
wonder what other modules are not getting loaded now. Ethernet is not
working - is there a module for that? I added the following to
/etc/modules:
ehci-hcd
usbmouse
mousedev
and the mouse worked again. (But not the right button.) I had to
manually get modules ehci-hcd, hid, ohci-hcd, usbkbd, usbhid (using
modconf). Then modprobe to get them going. After a bit more reading on
the net I checked and discovered that hotplug is NOT installed. It had
been removed in the recent upgrade. I apt-get installed hotplug -
which in turn removed gnome-volume-manager, hal, udev. I have also
read some things here and there from people saying that udev caused
them problems. I am not really sure what these three things are used
for.
Now, on a reboot, /etc/modules has the following being automatically
added by sensors-detect:
usbhid
ohci-hcd
usbkbd
and the mouse is working perfectly. (Right-click works again.)
NOTE: I used these web pages which detail similar problems:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/26/2003/12/1/118534
http://www.issociate.de/board/post/244694/X_(core_input_device)_probs_under_Debian_unstable.html
Now if I can figure out why eth0 is not being detected....
Craig
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