FC2 X issues

Pedro Fernandes Macedo webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br
Sat Mar 27 03:56:10 UTC 2004


Michael A. Peters wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:24 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
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>>On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:08:04 -0800, Tom 'Needs A Hat' Mitchell 
>><mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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>>I know it's the wrong list, but I asked the same question and I"ll offer 
>>the answer I got on the test list.  You need to change the mouse device in 
>>XF86Config from /dev/psaux or /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice.  It fixed the 
>>problem I hAD with X failing on updated kernels.
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>>From what I gather from discussion at arstechnica - it's only an issue
>with Fedora kernel updates - vanilla kernels don't have the issue.
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Now it's only a issue with fedora.. Other distros will have to do this 
later (or make dirty hacks like simlynks pointing to /dev/input/mice) . 
If you search the fedora-test-list archives , you may find a message 
from Dave Jones explaining this change..

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Pedro Macedo





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