I finally decided to upgrade my Alphastation from Debian Woody to
Sarge. The running upgrade procedure as described in the Release
Notes failed part-way along with some interesting anomalies. Like my
9GB disk drives were suddenly seen as 100TB. Too bad ithat can't be
real.
So a complete new installation from CDroms. To one disk drive,
leaving the other two untouched. All worked well, eventually I found
everything that I had to "aptitude install" to make X begin to work.
I have this beautiful display with a little X cursor in the middle of
it, and no way to move the cursor.
Of course, the mouse had been working only a couple of hours
previously. Doing some Google reading, I find that with kernel 2.6
the mouse kernel connection seems to have been changed from /dev/psaux
to /dev/input/mice. So my newly made XF86Config-4 file has an
"InputDevice" section
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
The previous incarnation had "/dev/psaux" and "PS/2" for "Device" and
"Protocol" respectively. I also note that Sarge is still XFree86
while Etch uses Xorg.
I have tried all 4 combinations {input/mice,psaux} {ImPS/2,PS/2} in
this file, with the same no mouse attachment symptoms.
What to try next? Downgrade to a 2.4 kernel? But one of my major
objectives for this upgrade was to use some of the advanced features
of the 2.6 kernel.
carl
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