On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 05:54:38AM -0800, Richard Coffee wrote: > >> > >> I recently finished up with 7.3. Didn't have serious problems getting > >> it to boot, however, when I installed gpm, I couldn't get my trackball > >> to work. Googling the issue came up with a few hits, but nothing very > >> helpful. I suspect it has something to do with the kernel or udev > >> because there is no mouse symlink in /dev as there is with older LFS > >> installs I've done. Grepping the config file for MOUSE showed the exact > >> same settings as I've used in previous kernels. > > > > mouse nodes should be in /dev/input/, for main mouse it's > > /dev/input/mice. You don't really want the old /dev/psaux interface. > > On previous installs /dev/mouse has been a link to /dev/input/mouse0. That > link is not created for 7.3. If course I don't know if that is the issue, > but it is one of the differences I've spotted. Manually creating the link > didn't fix the problem, so I'm guessing that it's a symptom and not the > cause. I've also looked through the /lib/udev directory files, and tried > turning off psaux in the kernel. :( > This is what I've got on my current machine. I don't use gpm, or a trackball, so these might not be _enough_ and I've no idea if the SCREEN sizes matter.
# # Input device support # CONFIG_INPUT=y # CONFIG_INPUT_FF_MEMLESS is not set CONFIG_INPUT_POLLDEV=y # CONFIG_INPUT_SPARSEKMAP is not set # CONFIG_INPUT_MATRIXKMAP is not set # # Userland interfaces # CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1024 CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=768 # CONFIG_INPUT_JOYDEV is not set CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y # CONFIG_INPUT_EVBUG is not set [snip keyboard ] CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=m CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_ALPS=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LOGIPS2PP=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_CYPRESS=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_LIFEBOOK=y CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOINT=y (my options after this are unset, but they might apply to your hardware). ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
