kernel-2.6 test8
Maynard Kuona
knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Wed Oct 29 05:21:23 UTC 2003
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 06:56, Maynard Kuona wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 05:22, James Drabb wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 20:48, Dams wrote:
> > > AFAIK, arjan already packaged test9 kernel. Take a look at
> > > http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/
> >
> > Speaking of the 2.6 kernel, is there a list some where of all the module
> > changes? Last time I tried a 2.6 kernel, non of my USB devices worked,
> > especially my USB mouse. Is there any how-to of sorts of how to set up
> > the new modules config file?
> >
> > Jim Drabb
>
> Here's what I did to get mine working.
>
> The driver for the USB mouse and keyboard had a name changes it seems.
> Not they are called usbkbd and usbmouse. To preserve compatibility with
> the other kernels I had (2.4's) I did the folloing to the
> modprobe.conf.dist. I replaced the lines
Actually I changed this in the /etc/rc.sysinit not
/etc/modprobe.conf.dist as I said before. Sorry about that little error.
>
> action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe keybdev 2> /dev/null
> action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe mousedev 2> /dev/null
> with
>
> if grep -q "2.4" /proc/version; then
> action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe keybdev 2> /dev/null
> action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe mousedev 2> /dev/null
> elif grep -q "2.6" /proc/version; then
> action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe usbkbd 2> /dev/null
> action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe usbmouse 2> /dev/null
> fi
>
> I also changed the line in modprobe.conf from
>
> alias usb-controller usb-uhci
>
> to
>
> alias usb-controller uhci-hcd
>
> I am not sure how much of this was necessary though. But it seems to be
> working. A little weirdness is that kernel 2.6 detects my mouse
> connected to USB as a PS/2 mouse. Kudzu wants to add the new
> configuration but I told it to "do nothing" and it works fine. The 2.6
> kernel actually does not seem to mind me changing the mouse from the USB
> port to the PS/2 port and vice versa. I read somewhere that it was
> pretty good at this and did not require configuration again. Hope this
> solves your problem.
>
>
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