[Linux-disciples] Keyboard and mouse cut out

[Adam Kessel]

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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 01:08:12PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:47:33PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> > Are they USB or PS/2 devices?
> USB trackball with a dongle to adapt it to a PS/2 port (the dongle came
> with the trackball); PS/2 keyboard.

So they're both really connected as PS/2 devices. This would make it less
likely (it seems to me) to just disappear as devices--the PS/2 support in
2.4 series is more robust than USB support generally.

> > Have you tried a more recent kernel? It would be worth trying with 2.4.22
> > and/or 2.6.0test5.
> That is a good plan. It's always tricky for me to figure out which
> options to pick when upgrading the kernel; I wish I could somehow say,
> "Just pick the same options as the kernel I already have," but it never
> seems to be that easy.

Sure there is. It's called 'make oldconfig'.

This won't work so well with the 2.6 kernel series, since so much has
changed, but for 2.4.22 you will only need to answer a few more questions
at build time, and it should be mostly "no".

Also, hopefully you are aware of make menuconfig, an ncurses-based
kernel configuration.

> > Also, do you see any messages in 'dmesg' or /var/log/XFree86.0.log (or
> > syslog for that matter) around the time that the event occurs?
> Nothing in dmesg. In the X log, there's
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
>         No such device.
> (EE) Generic Mouse: cannot open input device
> (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse"
> (II) UnloadModule: "mouse"

That's just looking for a USB mouse, which you don't have.

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