ttilt Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 this is a problem I've seen a lot of people having in other forums too. I tried installing 2.6.0 (currently I have Mandrake 9.2 (kernel 2.4.22)) and after reboot I get some error messages saying my /etc/fstab needs to be changed since my cdrom is no longer called /dev/scd0, it's now called /dev/hdc... After all these file system messages are done, I'm in KDE but with no mouse support. I have a USB optical mouse. It could be my config options but I'm sure I enable all USB stuff in there. Could I be missing an option there? Are other people having this same problem? Also, I notice that I don't have network either... don't know why but it could be some missing option during config too. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pzatch Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 How did you install? I installed and it didn't change a thing. Just ran faster and smoother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 is udev and the new hotplug installed? is mousedev in /etc/modprobe.preload? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 Make sure that you check what bvc asked about first. Check the mouse section of your XFree86Config-4 file: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" - Option "Protocol" "auto" + Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Buttons" "5" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (modify the protocol type from auto to IMPS/2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 modprobe mousedev modprobe usbmouse urpmi hotplug Now for some reason to get a mouse device in /dev/ you need to modprobe mousedev. Hotplug is reccommended, it is advised you install this if you use USB, even if you dont hotplug them. They have fixed/changed/modifyed the kernel so that instead of having to use SCSI emulation to write to a CD burner, it is now capable of doing it with the normal ide-cd driver. There are still some problems with some drives thoug, i dont have details on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted December 30, 2003 Report Share Posted December 30, 2003 modprobe mousedevmodprobe usbmouse usbmouse is depricated in kernel 2.6 (like scsi-ide emulation) usbmouse is replaced by mousedev /udev/* replaces /dev/* for all usb devices kernel 2.6 is a baby, not even a month old since it's "stable" birth. kernel, sysfs, udev, all need to mature before they are complete. Don't expect it to be SuperKernel quite yet. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted December 31, 2003 Report Share Posted December 31, 2003 kuchwas: My Microshaft USB Intellimouse Rodent didnt work when I modprobed mousedev. I had to modprobe usbmouse as well to get it to work. This is in 2.6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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