On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 04:22:39PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > That certainly sounds as if it should help. Bruce : the mouse and > > keyboard drivers are redundant for linux nowadays. > > > > The mouse and (minimal) keyboard ought to be handled by 10-evdev.conf > > installed by the xorg-server, with extra keyboard details in another > > file there : the book uses /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/xkb-defaults.conf in > > 'Setting up X Input Devices' in 'Xorg-7.7-1 Testing and Configuration' > > at the end of chapter 24. > > I know. On my x86_64 system with usb keyboard and mouse, the same setup > works fine without any xorg.conf. The problem seems to be mostly around > the ps2 keyboard on the 686 system, although the evdev driver is not > being loaded for the mouse. > > Looking at the drivers, I see that we don't download or build > xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.1 or xf86-input-mouse-1.7.2. I think I'll try > those. > Deliberately, evdev is the expected driver for normal linux systems using udev. Perhaps a kernel config issue : is CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV set ? Also check if your .config mentions a PS/2 mouse (in the input section, I'm not sure of the CONFIG name).
I'll note that my file for the keyboard specifies Driver "evdev" hopefully not necessary, and would not affect your mouse. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
