[PLUG] Just a note for the unaware.
Kyle Hayes
kyle at silverbeach.net
Mon May 31 11:20:02 UTC 2004
On Monday 31 May 2004 11:07, Kenneth G. Stephens wrote:
> I was all excited about getting my 2.6.3 kernel running. Then I tried
> to start X windows. No mouse. I had a mouse in 2.4.x. No mouse. No
> serial ports. Recompiled the kernel to get serial ports. Still no
> serial ports.
>
> Hmmmm. Maybe there are module for the serial ports now. There is for
> the parallel ports.
>
> Sure, enough. /lib/modules/2.6.3/kernel/drivers/serial/serial_core.ko
> and 8250.ko. These are new to 2.6.3. I loaded them like any other
> module: modprobe 8250 loaded them just fine.
>
> I even got a message that /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 had interrupts
> assigned.
>
> Reran XFree86 -configure and got actually mouse action.
If I remember correctly, the 2.6 kernel translates all mice to look like an
IMPS2 mouse or something. I just installed SuSE 9.1 and it all seems to
work fine. But, your existing X config might be fubar.
Best,
Kyle
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