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Re: X won't start after kernel compile

   Hi Jaime and Simo,
I happen to be more stupid than I previously thought. My mouse is a serial. I had disabled serial stuff on .config. Now, recompiled and 2.12-5 is working ok with X. That's actually the first time I try to compile kernels. Funny thing to do. Do you guys know any literature that can be recommended for a newb on compiling-kernel (debian way)? I don't know exactly how I access kernel efficiency. How much of an improvement am I supposed to experience by compiling custom kernels? How do I benchmark it? What I noticed so far is: the image vmlinuz 2.12 is 1.290.903kb and k7 (stock kernel) is 1.151.346kb. Wasn't my custom kernel to be smaller? Initrd, on the other side, does differ: 1.560.576kb for the custom and 4.608.000kb for the stock k7. Custom takes less time to boot, but after that, it just seems like any kernel. 
Any guidance?
Thanks!



Jaime Armendáriz Villalba wrote:


I've just had the same problem today. The solution has been, changing:

# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX is not set

to is set

You will have to reboot, and there will be your /dev/psaux again



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