On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:08:06PM -0500, Peter Hayes wrote:
I have a Debian installation off of a somewhat old net install CD,
running the 2.4.27-2-K7 kernel and everything is just fine booting up
into gnome desktop... it's all happy.
I decided I wanted to upgrade the kernels and have tried several with
similar results. The present 2.6.8-2-k7 is an example.
The boot runs up fine until it attempts to start X. It then runs through
the entries in the XFreeConfig-4 file (as far as I can tell anyway) and
gets to the mouse device. This is a glidepoint-PS/2 which specifies
'/dev/psaux' as the device.
Unfortunately, there is no file '/dev/psaux'. If I change the entry to
'/.dev/psaux', it works fine from the 2.6 boot but, if I understand what
I'm doing (I'm fairly new to linux and know enough to be a little
dangerous to myself, but found the file using 'find' and figured it
couldn't hurt just to see if it worked), is going across the two kernels.
I've tried copying the file to a another directory and placing it in the
2.6 /dev directory, but it still doesn't run and the X log indicates
that /dev/psaux is missing (unless I link to the /.dev version).
Any suggestions for a somewhat confused initiate?
The 2.6 kernel doesn't have /dev/psaux by default IIRC. Try changing it
to /dev/input/mice.
I don't think using the entry in /.dev/ will cause any serious problems
(yet), but I doubt it's a good idea to keep using it - that's just me
being cautious though.
-Ben
(Sorry, meant to send this to the list.)
Hmmm... I've the same problem with '/dev/input/mice' - it's not there
in the 2.6 installation; the only file in that directory is a
'events0'. The 2.4 kernel directory of the same name does have 'mice'
but won't copy it... I assume that this is something in linux? Even as
root, I can't access the file and make a copy so that I can add it to
the 2.6 directory (at least a first, clumsy attempt at making the thing
work).