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Re: 2.6.8 kernel cant find /dev/psaux



On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:26, Ray Curd wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have been running 2.4.24 kernel using KDE3.2 and everything was
> fine, I then installed the 2.6.8 kernel with no problems or error
> messages and the system boots up ok but when I startx it fails with
> an error message - cannot open /dev/psaux and - no core pointer.
> Since all was OK before can anyone give me any pointers what may be
> going wrong.
>
> All help will be appreciated,
>
> Ray Curd.

Load (using modprobe) modules psmouse and mousedev.  The 2.6
kernel and support environment do not load them automatically yet
(serio support is needed in hotplug I believe) so add them to 
/etc/modules.

David



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