RE: problem starting kde
I had to switch to USB mice/keyboards because my one of my cats pulled my
PS/2 connections out so hard that the sockets were loosened, and no longer
work.
When I first tried a USB mouse with Linux, I ran into this problem, and the
solution was to load a bewildering number (five?) of kernel modules. I
won't pretend to understand why there are so many, and it doesn't seem to
matter what order to load them (other than kernel object-file dependencies),
but here's what I have currently loaded:
tim@golde (Mon Jul 15 11:47):/home/tim$ sudo lsmod
Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
loop 8336 3 (autoclean)
mousedev 3904 1
usbmouse 1792 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 21860 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [mousedev usbmouse]
usbcore 28832 0 [usbmouse usb-uhci]
On my work machine (nearly identical, except that my PS/2 ports are not
damaged), I found I was able to use both a PS/2 and a USB mouse in the same
X session (multiple InputDevice sections in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, one for
/dev/psaux and another for /dev/input/mice). One is a wheel mouse, and the
other is a plain-3 button. I don't like the way the wheel feels when you
try to use it as a middle button, so I do switch off sometimes.
Tim
Timothy L. Jones - tjones@tsiconnections.com
<mailto:tjones@tsiconnections.com>
Software/SysEng III - ET/Query Apps Group
UNIX IS user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are
-----Original Message-----
From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists [mailto:tpo2@sourcepole.ch]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:42 AM
To: Eric Aumont
Cc: debian-kde
Subject: Re: problem starting kde
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Eric Aumont wrote:
> (EE) xf860OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
> No such file or directory.
Either you have the wrong permissions on /dev/input/mice (I guess not
that would give you a different error message), or you don't have the
driver for it in the kernel, or you don't have the module loaded
that provides the driver.
Have a look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, look at the Mouse section and
put /dev/psaux there.
I guess,
*t
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