[NTLUG:Discuss] mouse support w/2.6.13 kernel

[Tom Tumelty]

On 3/31/06, Spicerun <spicerun at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Since kernel-2.6.13 and above have removed devfs, you are probably using
> udev, and udev no longer makes the psaux link to the mouse.  In the
> Xorg.conf file, change 'Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"' to
> 'Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"' and your mouse should work just
> fine.
>
> You could compile psaux legacy link option into the kernel, but it has
> been my experience that udev still won't automatically make /dev/psaux.
>
> The kernel proto options are good, but my understanding that is purely
> to turn on the old mouse behavior in that kernel (they had to disable
> the new behavior in kernel versions about that time, but I know the new
> behavior is enabled in the 2.6.15 and 2.6.16 kernels.
>
> At least this is what I've found.
>
> --Spicerun
>


Thank everyone for the information.
I will try this soon as i can. At the moment i have updated MySQL to
5.1Alpha, and went back to kernel
2.4  but would like to get 2.6 to work. I am building a Linux, Apache,
MySQL, and JSP project and I do not know yet if kernel 2.6 would provide any
benefit.....but I would like to learn about it :-) .