new kernel 2.6 and USB (hid) error

W. Guy Thomas mrguytx at austin.rr.com
Sun Oct 3 23:44:45 UTC 2004



James Wilkinson wrote:

>W. Guy Thomas wrote:
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>>I upgraded my kernel this morning to 2.6 from 2.4 and can't get into X 
>>because it won't find the mouse.
>>This is a laptop with a built in pointing device, no external mouse.
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>then later:
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>>This didn't work.
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>>And I'm not at FC2 just yet but hope to be by tonite.
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>Well, it's probably a bit late by now, but check /etc/X11/XF86.conf for
>Section "InputDevice" where it says Identifier "Mouse", and change
>the Device to /dev/input/mice .
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>This then probably won't work with 2.4: you might want a bit of
>scripting to choose the "right" XF86.conf at boot depending on the
>kernel version.
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>James.
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so I can just copy XF86.conf and save it as .save for now, edit the 
file, if it works then great, if not I can copy it back from a console.

cool. let me try this!

still working on upgrading FC1 to FC2, I am about to give freaking up. 
(see other post).

thanks!

=G




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