Hi all, Herbert Xu, the Debian kernel package maintainer, will upload kernel-2.6.2 to the unstable brunch soon (you can download the kernel from http://people.debian.org/~herbert ). I tested this kernel on 3 different computers, and on all 3 computers X wasn't able to start any longer. X was complaining about not being able to access /dev/psaux. The modules mousedev and psmouse were loaded though, like in 2.6.0. I was testing lot of things but couldn't fix the problem. So I sent Herbert an email and told him about my problems and a possible bug in the mousedev module. He gave me the information that the mousedev module no longer creates /dev/psaux by default and that this was requested by the Debian X maintainers (modprobe mousedev psaux=1 does still create the /dev/psaux device, but how could one know).
However, I contacted Branden and wanted to know his opinion, he would like to see an open discussion. So here we go :-) ! The /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 that comes with the Debian include /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice ! But nearly all the administrators I know adjust and configure XF86Config-4 manually - and will probably fail like I did when upgrading to Kernel-2.6.2 due to having /dev/psaux only in their configs. I assume Herbert Xu might get tons of bug reports due to this behaviour. Maybe I am a complete idiot and talking bullshit here, if so, please let me know...if not, what are your thoughts? Kind reagrds, Joerg.
