Re: X won't start after kernel compile

2005/9/6, Simo Kauppi <swk@nic.fi>:

Hi,

Are you using the legacy device (/dev/psaux) in your XF86Config-4? If
so, you need to change it to /dev/input/mice, since you don't have the
/dev/psaux in your kernel.

The section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 looks something like this:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Simo

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 03:45:26PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote:
> I managed to compile a new 2.6.12 kernel using this howto:
> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/202.
> The kernel boots ok and I have a prompt. But X won't start, with error
> 'no core pointer' or something like that.
> I already tried to dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, but the same error
> goes for every mouse option in there.
> When configuring the new kernel, I tried to be economic, and removed
> lots of things that were enabled. Maybe I removed support for the
> device. The problem is, I'm having a hard time figuring which one is.
> Here's the relevant part of .config:
>
> (by the way, I have a ps2 mouse).
>
> # Userland interfaces
> #
> CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=m
> # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX is not set
> CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024
> CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768
> # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set
> # CONFIG_INPUT_TSDEV is not set
> CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=m
> CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG=m
>
> #
> # Input Device Drivers
> #
> CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD=y
> CONFIG_KEYBOARD_ATKBD=y
> # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_SUNKBD is not set
> # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_LKKBD is not set
> # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_XTKBD is not set
> # CONFIG_KEYBOARD_NEWTON is not set
> CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y
> CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=m
> CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL=m
> CONFIG_MOUSE_VSXXXAA=m
> CONFIG_INPUT_JOYSTICK=y
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_ANALOG=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_A3D=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_ADI=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_COBRA=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_GF2K=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_GRIP=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_GRIP_MP=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_GUILLEMOT=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_INTERACT=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_SIDEWINDER=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_TMDC=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_IFORCE=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_IFORCE_USB=y
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_IFORCE_232=y
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_WARRIOR=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_MAGELLAN=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_SPACEORB=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_SPACEBALL=m
> CONFIG_JOYSTICK_STINGER=m
> # CONFIG_JOYSTICK_TWIDJOY is not set
> # CONFIG_JOYSTICK_JOYDUMP is not set
> CONFIG_INPUT_TOUCHSCREEN=y
> CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_GUNZE=m
> # CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_ELO is not set
> # CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_MTOUCH is not set
> # CONFIG_TOUCHSCREEN_MK712 is not set
> CONFIG_INPUT_MISC=y
> CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR=m
> CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT=m
>
> I'm using debian sarge. The 2.6.12-5 package was linux-source from
> debian unstable.
>
> thanks!

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