Re: PS/2 mouse not working after upgrade to kernel 2.6.0

From: Kevin Wortman (kwortman_at_ics.uci.edu)
Date: 02/13/04

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    Everything worked perfectly once I modprobe'd mousedev. Thanks for the
    help.

    Kevin Wortman

    Peter Samuelson wrote:

    >[Kevin Wortman]
    >
    >
    >>(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psaux
    >> No such device.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >
    >
    >>I tried to cat /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice and /dev/input/mouse0 ,
    >>and all give a device not found error, which led me to believe the
    >>kernel module was not loaded. But my dmesg contains
    >>
    >>input: PS2++ Logitech Mouse on isa0060/serio1
    >>
    >>
    >
    >With the kernel input layer, there are three components to the mouse
    >driver now. One is 'psmouse', which you already have loaded. Another
    >is 'input', which is autoloaded. The third is the frontend,
    >'mousedev', which takes mouse data and produces an emulated PS/2
    >Intellimouse on /dev/input/mice - and optionally on /dev/psaux as well,
    >for backward compatibility.
    >
    >Note that 'mousedev' is not strictly needed - if your applications can
    >deal with the 'event interface' instead, you can just load the 'evdev'
    >module and use /dev/input/event0 et al. as an alternate "front-end
    >driver" for mouse packet output. But normally you just want 'mousedev'
    >and /dev/input/mice.
    >
    >Peter
    >
    > 

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