Frank, Thanks for your answer. On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Frank Murphy wrote:
> > > On a Powerbook G4: > > For a Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse: > > > > Do I need the CONFIG_MOUSE (or some other) option enabled in the > > 2.4.21-ben2 Kernel, if I want to plug the mouse to an USB connector? > > > > Or will the mouse be run by enabling one of the CONFIG_USB options in this > > kernel? > > I'm not positive what the exact kernel options are for this, but running the > Debian pre-compiled 2.4.20 kernel works with my USB mouse. ... the point is, that with pre-compiled kernels, AfAIK, I'll have a lot of non-modular capabilities built-in to the kernel, thus wasting RAM (and speed?) that otherwise could be used for stuff I really need on the machine. So compiling myself is option #1 (I'm definitely not keen on extra-work at this beautiful summer here ... :) If it will not work, I'll probably use the options from kernel .configs I found on www ... But most of the time I'm not a friend of copying without understanding. That's why I came here ... :) Thanks again, Frank. Best Regards, Wolfgang > You'll need to have the hotplug package installed. > > Frank > > > -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer
