Re: /dev/psaux

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Drogo Bumbleroot wrote:

> > > I know I've got a PS2 mouse, but X-Windows is telling me it's not 
> > > there...
> > >      
> > From: Kent West [mailto:westk@acu.edu] 
> > Subject: Re: /dev/psaux
> >
> > What kernel version? Perhaps you need to "modprobe psmouse"?
> >    
>
> igloo:/dev# uname -a
> Linux igloo 2.4.25-1-686 #1 Tue Feb 24 10:55:59 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Yes, the file is there
>
> igloo:/dev# ls -l | grep psaux
> crw-------    1 root     root      10,   1 Mar 14  2002 psaux
>
> The box is a basic woody install.  Then I altered my source.list file,
> changing "stable" to "testing".  I assume that this is the way to upgrade to
> sarge.  I installed x-windows-system.  Now I'm at this point where X doesn't
> want to run, possibly due to the mouse.
>
> This machine did run X on woody before.  It got reformatted as a Gentoo box,
> then reformatted again to it's current state.
>
> igloo:/dev# modprobe psmouse
> modprobe: Can't locate module psmouse
>
>  
Maybe "modprobe mousedev"?  (You can run "modconf" and look for any 
mouse-looking drivers and try those. Also, using gpm would be a lot 
easier here than trying to start X after every little modprobe, in my 
opinion, but you'd need to configure gpm and X to work together to share 
the mouse.)

> You think I should boot back into 2.4.18-bf2.4 or whatever it is...?
>
>  
I'd try it; then if it works, do a "lsmod" to see what modules are 
loaded; then you might can try those modules on the newer kernel.

--
Kent