On Monday 13 May 2002 03:50 am, Udo Rader wrote: > > Am Mon, 2002-05-13 um 09.33 schrieb Hoyt: > > Aside from the poor grammar, this error message appeared after a re-boot > > and my usb mouse did not work. It appears to be a problem with devfs as > > there exists no link named /dev/usbmouse -- it juts disappeared. > > > > I was able to "fix" his by changing devfs=mount to devfs=nomount in > > /etc/lilo.conf, rebooting and then running mouseconfig. > > > > I was unsuccessful in searching for a solution to this problem on Google, > > the Mandrake mail list archives and the Mandrake Forum. > > > > This also happened to me in 8.1 and I never did solve it other than the > > "fix" I used. > > > > Why did this happen? > > > > How do I get devfs and /dev/usbmouse working again? > > > hi hoyt, > > if you've got a VIA based motherboard, there might be a problem with usb > keyboard and mouse detection/integration. for a solution on LM8.2 check > http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=88#usb > > udo
Thanks. I looked at that and, essentially, it says to modify /etc/X11/XF86Config from: Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" to Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" But . . . /dev/input/mice doesn't exist anymore when using devfs=mount. It existed before and all the appropriate symlinks worked fine, but inexplicably they disappeared. What that is all about -- their sudden disappearance -- is my question. What broke and why? -- Hoyt
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