Good morning. On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 23:20, Paul Davies wrote: > I have Redhat 8.0 installed on my machine. I have recompiled my kernel > - and everything is hunkey dorey with the exception that I cannot get my > USB optical mouse to work with the new kernel. I have recompiled the > kernel with as many possible combinations of modules included or not > included w.r.t USB support. Basically I have resorted to trial and error.
Make sure you're watching the messages log file with "tail -f messages" when you're loading the modules. You should see messages saying your mouse has been detected. Also need to make sure you've got the input module loaded. > I need to extract the original .config file from my original > distributions compiled kernel (bzImage and various modules). Does > anyone know how to extract it? I read somewhere this is possible. Woah, flashbacks to sluglets on Friday night. :-) The config is provided in the kernel RPM, as /boot/config-2.4.18-14, or whichever version you currently have installed. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
