Re: modprobe question

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2003 15:30, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I just dist-upgraded a sarge partition.
> >
> > Now the hid module for the usb mice will not load.
> >
> > If you do "modprobe hid" he says "cannot find keybdev which is needed
> > by hid".
>
>
> You're the one using backstreet-ruby, right...? 

Right Kjetil! And I figured out that backstreet-ruby removed it.

> > I cannot find keybdev anywhere in the 2.4.22 kernel that I am using,
> > except for traces in the documenation, but nothing in .config
>
>
> keybdev has been removed in 2.6 IIUC, and since backstreet-ruby is a 
> backport of some console and input stuff, keybdev is gone. 

What I still cannot figure out is where modprobe finds the dependency, 
if I cannot find any reference to it in /etc or /lib...


> The advice I got was to add
> above hid usbcore
> to /etc/modutils/local (or somewhere equivalent). 

Will do! Still a puzzle where this thing came from after a dist-upgrade 
I forgot to do previously...

Thanks!

Hugo

> Basically, you don't need keybdev, but you have to tell your system 
> about it... :-) 
>
> Cheers,
>
> Kjetil