X.org mouse broke on dist-upgrade, solved ?

["Cameron L. Spitzer" <cls@truffula.sj.ca.us>]

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A colleague did a dist-upgrade, sarge to etch, and everything
still worked except the X Window System.  dpkg-reconfigure
left him with "No screens found" X unusable.
The standard fix for that, boot Knoppix and use the xorg.conf
file it generates, worked, except his mouse was dead.

Turns out the dist-upgrade brought in udev and hal and
module-init-tools, but no new kernel image.  He was
still running the 2.4 Sarge kernel, no udev, no
hardware abstraction layer.

  apt-get install linux-image-2.6-486
  update-grub

fixed the problem.  Is dist-upgrade supposed to bring
in the right kernel/initrd?


Cameron