modprobe usbhid: sarge cd linux26
[DANGER!: This is not going to be the best bug report ever. I
don't understand enough to do this right - feel free to ask me
for more info.]
Sat Jun 5 2005 - Downloaded "sarge" netinst CD, rebooted to my
brand new machine:
Arch: i386
Mouse: USB
HDD: SATA (which is why I booted the install disk as linux26)
# ...omitting what I figure are irrelevant additional specs.
The install process went well (by the way, good job, guys! it's
been a while since I've gone through it, and there are lots of
great improvements), and I went ahead and chose "Manual" on
tasksel.
When it came time to configure X, I did "apt-get install
x-window-system wdm blackbox" and X refused to start, saying "No
such device: /dev/input/mice"
So I apt-get install'd usbmgr, and, ta-daa, it worked great.
Sun Jun 6 2005 - When I shut down my machine for the first time
to move it, it came back up without a mouse. "cat /dev/input/mice"
gave no "No such device" error, but it also gave no data.
After some wrasslin' with it, and much help from #debian (thanks
'ethics'!), we discovered that I needed a "modprobe usbhid".
Adding usbhid to /etc/modules solved the problem permanently, of
course.
So, I'm wondering if at some point during the install process
usbhid was probe'd into the system, but then wasn't added to
/etc/modules? This is where my knowledge of the system runs out
- I have no idea which files to look through to find out.
I suppose I could just wipe everything and try the install from
scratch - that would definitely help the bug report, possibly
produce a patch, but I don't have the hardware/time right now. I
hope someone with expertise in the install process can use this
report to some good.
Sorry if this is a red herring,
-rjk
http://panoptic.com/rking
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