Bug#309092: psmouse not automatically loaded with 2.6.8-1-386 on IBM thinkpad A21e
On Saturday 14 May 2005 17:59, Peter Vandenabeele wrote:
> I did check the list of open bugs for debian-installer [2] and did not
> find my problem description in the list (searched on "mouse",
> "psmouse"), so I thought it was useful to report it.
Well, it is not really an installation problem, but an XFree86 problem.
Also, IIRC the problem is only with 2.6 kernels as the 2.4 kernel has the
mouse driver compiled in. As the 2.4 kernel is default, it should not
affect all that many users...
> > Just add psmouse to /etc/modules and your problems will be over.
>
> I agree that this is a work-around for me, now that I am aware of the
> problem, but would it not be better to implement a solution that
> spares other users going through the same experience before eventually
> finding this manual work-around ?
I agree. I had very much hoped that the maintainers of XFree86 would have
been able to solve this before Sarge, but unfortunately they have not.
> For a less experienced user like me, it _is_ frustrating to seemingly
> have a perfect installation and only upon next reboot (that can be days
> or weeks later), see the start-up of X fail for a reason that took me
> quite some time to understand.
>
> > Closing the report as this was the only issue from the installation.
>
> Can we not try to find a solution that will avoid people getting into
> this frustration before eventually resorting to this manual patch ?
I can try to get something added in the Release Notes, but it is too late
for any changes in Sarge itself.
> Is your proposal of a patch in Bug#307537 [3] also a practical solution
> for my problem, thus really closing the issue ?
No, the problem is after the reboot, not in the installer itself. That bug
will make a mouse available during 1st stage installation and has nothing
to do with running X on the installed system.
>[1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=255744
>[2]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?which=tag&data=d-i&archive=no
>[3]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=307537
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