so about a dozen kernels later... i reverted to the debian stock kernel for 2.4.20, and things worked on that. so i examined the relevant differences between my config and debian's:
8,11c8,11
< CONFIG_MOUSE=m
< CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y <--- debian
---
> CONFIG_MOUSE=y
> CONFIG_PSMOUSE=m <--- mine
the funny thing, according to menuconfig, it should be the way my
config has it listed. there's no option to set CONFIG_PSMOUSE to m,
it's on or off! so what did i do? i opened up .config in vi, made
the change manually, recompiled the kernel, and what do you know, i have
a mouse again. the *really* strange thing is that neither CONFIG_MOUSE
nor CONFIG_PSMOUSE generate insertable modules when set to m...
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:10:02PM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> Your new mouse (i am pretty sure) is at /dev/input/mouse, which you knew.
/dev/psaux (->/dev/misc/psaux in devfs) actually, because it's a laptop
touchpad mouse not usb.
sean
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