XFree86 Mouse error after rawhide updates

Gene C. czar at czarc.net
Wed Feb 18 19:20:01 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 18 February 2004 14:14, Gerry Tool wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2004 13:10, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> > After latest updates from rawhide, my XFree86 stopped working. It claims
> > that the /dev/mice/something is missing. I tried changing it to
> > /dev/mouse on XFree86 but the same happens. I tried reconfiguring the
> > mouse with mouseconfig but gpm cannot find the mouse to. What can I do?
> >
> > Thiago
>
> This is a problem with the current rawhide kernels.  Revert to using a
> kernel no higher than 2.6.2-1.81.  I've experienced the same problems with
> two kernels after that.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=116118

Also, I have successfully got things to work with the following two manual 
changes:

1. Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and replace "/dev/psaux" with "/dev/mouse"

2. in directory /dev, change (delete and add) the symbolic link so instead of 
mouse->psaux you have mouse->input/mice

This worked for me.
-- 
Gene





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