Alex Fisher wrote: > In a few words, my mouse has ceased to function. Here's what happened: > > The machine had been idle for a while, went to logout from KDE, no > mouse.... > <snippage> > > chipset causing this. > > So far, I've tried 1 trackball,and 2 different mice, as well as trying a > different cable from the headers. Nothing makes the slightest difference. > > The machine is my secondary machine, used by my house-mate and her > daughter. They need to use the mouse (they have no idea otherwise), so I > need to work out the problem fairly urgently. > > Need more info, please ask... Well, I've finally got it working again. The clue came when I as checking something else, and saw a message "...can't locate module serial...". searched and found a module named generic_serial and loaded that, now the mouse works. Seems the problem was the serial port driver wasn't loaded... Definitely going to re-build the kernel, and have the serial drivers complied in. -- Alex Fisher OpenOffice.org Marketing Project Community Contact, Australia
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