No USB mouse with Arjan's 2.6 kernel?

Andrew Farris fedora at andrewfarris.com
Thu Nov 13 14:26:55 UTC 2003


On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:41, Torrey Hoffman wrote:

> I installed the latest 2.6 kernel from Arjan's RPMs at
> http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.5 -- specifically
> vmlinuz-2.6.0-0.test9.1.83smp and tried it out.
> 
> Most things seemed to work, except my USB mouse didn't get started up
> and didn't work.  The light didn't come on, which seems to happen when
> the USB drivers load, so I don't think the USB mouse driver was loaded
> at all.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Yes, spend some time reading about the changes to the kernel modules, in
particular usbmouse and usbkbd.  Google should provide:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=upgrade+2.6+kernel+redhat&btnG=Google+Search
-- 
Andrew Farris <fedora at andrewfarris.com>





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