>>>> >>>> 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 > ...stuff trimmed > > CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2_TRACKPOINT=y > (my options after this are unset, but they might apply to your > hardware). > My setup is virtually identical, except POLLDEV was set to Module. Am recompiling kernel now for it. Hope it makes a difference. Thanks.
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