On Monday 06 May 2002 06:51 am, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > USB modules (for keyboard and mouse (HID devices)) need to be > compiled staticly into the kernel (not loaded as modules) so they are > available at boot time. You can do this with dynamically modules but > only if you run an initrd kernel (such as the stock Debian kernels).
Following advice of David Roundy, I built a 2.4.17 kernel plus relevant usb modules. My trackball works fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux twocups 2.4.17 #5 Sun May 5 21:50:31 CDT 2002 i686 unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo lsmod| grep -iE 'usb|mouse|hci' uhci 24392 0 (unused) mousedev 3808 1 usbmouse 1792 0 (unused) input 3072 0 [mousedev usbmouse] usbcore 52064 0 [uhci usbmouse] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Thanks, David! -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
