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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