Re: Still more X trouble from the install!

[Jim Higson <jh@333.org>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:55:39 -0600, Kent West <westk@acu.edu> wrote:

> Jim Higson wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:46:01 -0500, Johann Koenig 
> > <explosive@hvc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday January 12 at 06:26pm
> > > Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > As you can see I'm directing x to "/dev/input/mice". How can I be sure
> > > > my kernel is using /dev/input/mice for the usb mouse?
> > >
> > >
> > > As root: cat /dev/input/mice
> > > move the mouse around, and see if anything shows up on the screen. If
> > > yes, the mouse is probably working properly.
> >
> >
> > cat: mice: no such device
> What's the output of "lsmod"? Also, what kernel do you have ("uname -a")?

uname -a:
Linux farbots 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr 14 13:19:11 EST 2002 i686 unknown


lsmod:
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
tap0                    2528   1  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           2880   8  (autoclean)
isofs                  24864   8  (autoclean)
loop                    8464  24  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               4384   1  (autoclean)
parport_pc             22280   1  (autoclean)
lp                      6496   0  (unused)
parport                23360   1  [parport_pc lp]
ntfs                   49312   1
af_packet              11848   1
rtc                     5592   0  (autoclean)
ext2                   30848   2  (autoclean)
ide-disk                6816   4  (autoclean)
ide-probe-mod           8096   0  (autoclean)
ide-mod               131404   4  (autoclean) [ide-disk ide-probe-mod]
ext3                   57248   0  (autoclean)
jbd                    35640   0  (autoclean) [ext3]
unix                   13636   8  (autoclean)

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Jim Higson