Re: 2.6.8 kernel cant find /dev/psaux

[Ray Curd <rayjc@superdad.freeserve.co.uk>]

David thank you for your reply just put those in and they work fine

Regards Ray Curd.

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 13:35, David Goodenough wrote:
> 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