/dev/psaux problems
Hello All, I finally got around to upgrading my 93R6 syatem upto 1.1.5 (at least that's what the I-Connect CD says). The X11 install went fine (used a saved copy of XF86Config) until I try to start X. It complains that it can't open the mouse which is set to /dev/psaux. This files exists and has the right permissions, major and minor numbers: ls -al /dev/psaux crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 10, 1 Dec 31 1969 /dev/psaux If I try to cat the file, though, I get the following error: cat /dev/psaux cat: /dev/psaux: No such device I think I'm missing a driver, but I certainly don't see anything resembling PS/2 mouse driver during the Configure Drivers portion of the install. I would have expected this to be built into the Standard kernel (which is the one I selected). Does anyone know what I'm missing and how to install it? Thanks in advance, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/psaux problems
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Robert Resendes wrote: If I try to cat the file, though, I get the following error: cat /dev/psaux cat: /dev/psaux: No such device I don't think cat works here because /dev/psaux is not a regular file. I think I'm missing a driver, but I certainly don't see anything resembling PS/2 mouse driver during the Configure Drivers portion of the install. I would have expected this to be built into the Standard kernel (which is the one I selected). Does anyone know what I'm missing and how to install it? I beleive that Bruce has posted that this was omitted by mistake. One solution (although maybe not the best or easiest) is to complie a kernel yourself. Mike
Re: /dev/psaux problems
On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Robert Resendes wrote: If I try to cat the file, though, I get the following error: cat /dev/psaux cat: /dev/psaux: No such device On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Mike Taylor wrote: I don't think cat works here because /dev/psaux is not a regular file. No, IMHO this error in this instance results from the /dev/psaux file not existing. cat'ting an existing /dev/psaux file gives you a screenful of unreadable gibberish, but it gives you SOMETHING if the file exists. David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office: 3503 WeH, x86720 MTFBWY
Re: /dev/psaux problems
David Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Robert Resendes wrote: | If I try to cat the file, though, I get the following error: | cat /dev/psaux | cat: /dev/psaux: No such device | |On Mon, 26 Aug 1996, Mike Taylor wrote: | I don't think cat works here because /dev/psaux is not a regular file. | | No, IMHO this error in this instance results from the /dev/psaux |file not existing. cat'ting an existing /dev/psaux file gives you a |screenful of unreadable gibberish, but it gives you SOMETHING if the file |exists. You usually get this error when the device driver for this device isn't compiled into the kernel (or no loadable module for it was found?). If the file didn't exist at all then you would have recieved a No such file or directory error (otherwise, how would cat(1) know that it is supposed to be a device? :-) Try looking at your kernel's configuration and see if you have psaux there. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira| Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England. ISRAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous