Re: USB mouse not recognized till after gpm starts

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Rob Weir wrote:

> 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@
>
>  
Yes, I'm using "hotplug".

westk[@garciajo]:/etc/rc2.d> ls
S10sysklogd  S14ppp   S20gpm      S20ssh     S21nfs-common  S89cron
S11hotplug   S20exim  S20inetd    S20xfs     S23ntp-simple  S99rmnologin
S11klogd     S20fam   S20makedev  S20xprint  S89atd         S99xdm

westk[@garciajo]:/etc/init.d> ls -l *{hotplug,gpm}
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1473 Feb 11 13:36 gpm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1771 Apr 12 08:58 hotplug