Re: Can no longer use my USB mouse with my laptop

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Kevin J. Cummings writes:

I've recently booted 2.6.20-1.2944_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 and it didn't
work there either. This laptop came with
2.6.19-1.2895_1.fc6.cubbi_suspend2 installed initially. As far as I can
That's some vendor's frankenkernel.

I'm hoping this is just a knee-jerk reaction!

You really have to watch your step with some of these vendors that
tout their supposedly Linux-compatible laptops. A lot of them foist
on you some half-assed frankenkernel, that barely keeps the laptop's
bizarre hardware working. They conveniently give you a molested
yum.conf to suppress kernel and X.org errata updates, for the
uninformed. But as soon as you get rid of all their crap, and load
Fedora Borg-standard kernel, half the stuff in the laptop stops working.

Nope, I control my yum.conf and th repos I search. I'm well up-to-date
with kernel and Xorg updates.

Yep and this is a violation of Fedora trademarks if they are calling the
OEM installation Fedora. Please let me know with more details if that's
the case.

What's the difference between the OEM packaging this kernel-suspend2 vs
me installing it myself from a 3rd party repository. Its built from the
official FC6 source files (isn't it?). And supposedly it provides
suspend/hibernate support for my laptop that the official FC6 kernel
does not. In fact, similar packages exist at ATRPMS (even though mine
don't come from there) a well used 3rd party repository.

What do other Fedora Core Users do to support suspend/hibernate in their
laptops?

We have enough issues with with the regular releases to not wanting to
deal with reports from OEM installations of Fedora that are heavily
modified to such a extend that they cannot really be called Fedora anymore.

To tell you the truth, I have no idea how heavily modified this
particular kernel is, but my vendor tells me its necessary to run this
kernel in order to support the hardware on my laptop. I'm not ready yet
to try and re-invent what they do with their hardware (they've been
doing it much longer than I have) and they have access to the hardware
specs for the laptops they ship.

Now, if you are telling me that the error message I'm seeing is not
present in the official 2.6.20 kernels that Fedora ships in either its
2933 or 2944 kernels, then that's useful information to me that I can
take back to my vendor. But, if not, then please tell me about these
error messages and why my mouse won't work with the FC6 2.6.20 kernels.

If I give you a car and you take it to a mechanic and have it modified then
it starts acting strange where will you take it to have it looked at or
fixed? Will you take it back to me or to the mechanic?

Your vendor supplied you with a modified kernel. You need to ask your
vendor any and all questions regarding their software.

And, please name your vendor.

Or, after going to google, one finds the source of kernel you are using is
to be found at http://mhensler.de/swsusp/ and you can send him email at
matthias@xxxxxxxxxxx for help.


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