[lug] Upgrade to 2.6 kernel mouse woes

[Zan Lynx]

Here is /dev/input/mice from my Fedora FC1 system.  

crw-------   1 root    root  13,  63 Sep 15  2003 mice


If /dev/input/mice doesn't exist on your system, maybe an update to
whatever package MAKEDEV lives in would help.  Then you could run
MAKEDEV with appropriate options to update your /dev/ directory.  Or you
could use mknod to create the character device like my listing above,
and try that.

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 13:38, Glenn Murray wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed a stock 2.6.3 kernel image in a Debian testing
> box.  It boots, but X will not start because the PS/2 mouse
> can't be configured.  I've changed the Device line in
> XF86Config to point to /dev/input/mice, but this and linking
> to /dev/psaux doesn't help.  The X log file says
> xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice, which
> make sense because /dev/input/mice doesn't exist.
> 
> Google says I need to load modules mousedev and psmouse, and
> modprobe or /etc/modules does that happily, but neither
> helps the mouse to be found.

-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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