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Re: USB mouse not recognized till after gpm starts



On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:00:35AM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> I've got a Del Optiplex GX260 with a USB mouse. When I boot up, gpm 
> starts before the USB mouse driver stuff kicks in, therefore gpm doesn't 
> see the mouse. After I get logged in, I can then run "/etc/init.d/gpm 
> restart" and the mouse works just fine.
> 
> How do I go about getting the mouse driver working before gpm starts? Is 
> it just a matter of re-ordering the gpm script in /etc/rc2.d, or is 
> there a more "proper" way, or what?

That's weird, gpm starts up *after* my USB drivers get loaded.  Are you
using `hotplug'?  

rob@ooder> ls -1 *{hotplug,gpm}
S11hotplug@
S20gpm@

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