What broke? What changed? I have been running 2.6x kernels on this legacy PPro box for most of this year -- first kernel-image-2.6.2-1-686, then kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 -- without incident.
Today, the only change I made was to install these:
kernel-doc-2.6.8
kernel-headers-2.6.8-1-686
kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
When I boot into this, the mouse cursor moves; but, is totally insane ;<
It gravitates to the left side of the screen, near randomly opens menus,
and randomly selects menu items, and moves icons to different locations
on the screen -- basically, there is no chance to function normally in
KDE v3.2x.
I have disabled gpm -- no change.
# grep mouse /etc/modules
mousedev
psmouse
.From /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 :
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Which brings up another question: How do I get a /dev/input/ ???
This box has been upgraded since Slink, and it has *no* /dev/input/ ;<
Anyway, what ought I to check? I have googled, and scoured debian
archives. Mine is not any of the slew of mouse problems that I have
found there. Reverting to kernel-image-2.6.6-2-686 -- the mouse is
working as expected.
What do you think?
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