udev and psmouse breakage
Greetings,
I'm writing to follow up on (archived) udev bug 236580. It's
unfortunate that simply installing udev and rebooting as the debconf
instructions describe makes PS/2 mice totally unusable, thus breaking X
and the entire desktop. (mdetect returns nothing, hotplug doesn't see
anything.)
Can you think of a way to make this work? Is there something hotplug
can do to detect the PS/2 device, and install the psmouse module? The
alternative is to put a warning in the description and/or debconf
letting the user know that (s)he must modprobe psmouse in order to get
these devices to work.
IMHO, the fact that simply installing this package breaks so many
systems out of the box needs to be considered a major bug somewhere, and
in the interest of preventing thousands of flames to you and/or
debian-user, I think it should be a high priority to fix this before the
sarge release.
[I'm ccing debian-kernel because udev is sort of a kernel-related issue,
I know it's really user space but they are closely linked. Please CC me
in replies since I'm not subscribed to debian-kernel.]
Thanks,
-Adam P.
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