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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