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Re: USB & 2. 4 kernels



On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 18:05, Bud Rogers wrote:
> On Monday 06 May 2002 06:51 am, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:
> > USB modules (for keyboard and mouse (HID devices)) need to be
> > compiled staticly into the kernel (not loaded as modules) so they are
> > available at boot time.  You can do this with dynamically modules but
> > only if you run an initrd kernel (such as the stock Debian kernels).

So the KB and mouse are both handled by the same driver?
 
> Following advice of David Roundy, I built a 2.4.17 kernel plus relevant 
> usb modules.  My trackball works fine.  
> 
> budr@twocups:~$ uname -a
> Linux twocups 2.4.17 #5 Sun May 5 21:50:31 CDT 2002 i686 unknown
> budr@twocups:~$ sudo lsmod| grep -iE 'usb|mouse|hci'
> uhci                   24392   0  (unused)
> mousedev                3808   1
> usbmouse                1792   0  (unused)
> input                   3072   0  [mousedev usbmouse]
> usbcore                52064   0  [uhci usbmouse]
> budr@twocups:~$

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