On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 19:25, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> [please Cc to me on replies i do not normally get receieve cooker]
>
> > So I've tried kernel 2.6 on my laptop now too, and that's almost there!
> > I had to make modprobe.conf myself...for some reason it didn't want to
> > generate one, I tried running the installation a couple of times but it
> > wouldn't do it.
>
> modprobe.conf is generated by *install* of (recent enough) module-init-tools.
> Common wisdom is remove module-init-tools and reinstall. If it does not work
> I am interested in details.
Ah, OK. I assumed it was installing the kernel that did it. I'll try
reinstalling module-init-tools, see if that does the job.
> I just used my desktop's one as a template and modified
> > as necessary, seems OK. Impressively, almost everything seems to work,
> > even the WLAN card...neat. The one thing I can't get going, though, is
> > the USB mouse. The internal trackpoint works fine, but the mouse won't
> > work. It seems I can't get usbmouse to load...the usbmouse module is
> > there, but when I try and modprobe it I get a fatal error because the
> > mousedev module doesn't exist? Anyone know what's going on?
>
> and if you do modprobe mousedev?
It says it doesn't exist.
> Have you compiled from sources or installed cooker RPM?
Installed the test2 RPM from contrib.
> {pts/1}% lsmod | grep mouse
> mousedev 8924 1
> psmouse 12680 0
How weird.
> please, try hotplug, module-init-tools and initscripts from
> http://supermount-ng.sf.net/mdk-25/ They should load mousedev automatically;
> also this version of initscripts runs usb coldplug script instead of
> /etc/init.d/usb so even devices available at boot should be properly
> initialized. Besides, hotplug in cooker does not properly support 2.6.
OK, I'll try those.
> Please let me know any problem you have, te more details the better.
I'll get back to you.
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adamw
