Installing advanced kernel,configuring mouse:help required

[S. Gongola]

if you have agp card, add the correct apg module
if you have an AMD motherboard you might need a different alias for your usb 
controlle. and I think you should put it into your modprobe.conf unless you 
INCLUDE modprobe.conf.FC1. Also check you XFree86 logs /var/log/XFree86*. it 
should tell you

On Sat March 13 2004 09:04 am, Kaustubh Ghosh wrote:
> I have installed the kernel-2.6.4 from
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/.(Only the rpm kernel-2.6.4-1.257...... no
> other packages)
> I had also added a line "alias usb-controller uhci-hcd" in
> /etc/modprobe.conf.FC1 now can be booted into it.But it gives errors during
> booting:
>
> Initialising USB Controllers:
>      fgrep:/proc/bus/usb/drivers:no such file or directory.
>                                                                          
> [OK] Initialising USB keyboard:
>      FATAL:Cannot find module usbkybd
>                                                                  [FAILED]
> IInitialising USB mouse:
>      FATAL:Cannot find module usbmouse
>                                                                  [FAILED]
>
> kudzu cannot detect any mouse and asks for removing configuration of the
> Generic Mouse.If I remove it I can log on to text prompt but the X-server
> would not start.If I do not remove it I graphical prompt tries to load but
> fails.It then tries to configure my mouse ,asks me to select a mouse type
> but ultimately fails and system hangs.
>
> But when I boot to my old kernel (2.4......nptl... that came with Fedora)
> everything works fine .It detects all my hardware (mouse,keyboard etc) but
> gives an error:
>
> mount:fs sysfs is not supported by kernel.
>
> I created /sysfs directory as per instructions in www.fedoranews .org as:
>
> "Kernel v2.6 now uses a new filesystem, create a new mountpoint in / and
> add the proper line in /etc/fstab:
> $ sudo mkdir /sys
> $ sudo echo "none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0" >> /etc/fstab # Or use vi, nano,
> emacs...
> Almost done, sometimes you got problems with the default initrd provided by
> the rpm, so you better rebuild it:
> $ sudo mv /boot/initrd-2.6.0-1.1.103.img /root
> $ cd /lib/modules
> $ sudo /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.0-1.1.103.img 2.6.0-1.1.103/
> Next thing you need to do is move your hwconf file:
> $ sudo mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /root"
>
>   I guess removing the directory(entry) will fix this.Otherwse no problem.
> I log on to graphical prompt and can perform all operations.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get kernel-2.6.4 to work in graphical mode.
> Thanks in advance.