Re: mouse config causes Xserver to crash
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 08:03:01AM +0900, Craig Hagerman wrote:
> 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....
I think hotplug was removed recently by udev (which now conflicts with
it) and is supposed to take over the jobs. Perhaps it doesn't quite do
everything.
Len Sorensen
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