Hello
Brian Walker (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> Using Sarge and regularly apt-get updating and upgrading I ignored the
> uninstalled gnome and kde, using blackbox wm, mutt and slrn. Thought I
> would try to fix the box before migrating to unstable.
>
> apt-get upgrade followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. Box is now borked.
> No mouse at log-in time, ^/Alt/F1 to command line. All seems well on
> dmesg, but XF86config error messages show that /dev/input/mice does
> not exist ... ls -l shows it present (and mouse0,1 and 2) but unable
> to be opened by most/less or xemacs.
Sounds like the necessary drivers aren't present. You should load the
mousedev and hid drivers, and the one for your USB host controller. For
2.4, you probably need usb_uhci, for 2.6 probably uhci_hcd (could the
difference in the names for 2.4 and 2.6 be the reason for your
problem?).
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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