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Re: no mouse under 2.6.8 kernel



On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 12:26 -0500, jroed@mts.net wrote:
> I am currently running Debian with a 2.4 Kernel.  I recently upgraded to the 
> 2.6.8-k7 kernel, but now my X Windows will not work.  I get an error saying 
> that it couldn't initialize the mouse because /dev/psaux doesn't exit (i 
> don't know why it doesn't)  i had heard that there were some changes to the 
> way the PS/2 mice are handled and that it might have changed 
> to /dev/input/mice but there is no device with that name either.  Does anyone 
> now of a way to fix this without compiling my own kernel ?  And if i am going 
> to need to recompile, are there any good programs out there to help me do 
> so ?  I tried once before and broke my system beyond repair.
> 
> 

try: modprobe mousedev

that should make /dev/input/mice show up for you.

-davidc



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