kernel-2.6 test8

[Maynard Kuona]

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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