Hi,
When I compiled my 2.4.22 kernel with the new nvidia driver, I had lost
my mouse in X. The problem was that upon bootup, the error was something
like "can't locate module mousedev" or something like. I did a "find" in
/lib/modules and realized that this directory did not exist in my newer
kernel directory tree: "kernel/drivers/input", but it existed in others:
/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.22-hs1# find /lib/modules/ -name "input"
/lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/input
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1-686/kernel/drivers/input
/lib/modules/2.4.22-nvidia/kernel/drivers/input
This I realized only after hours of searching google why a usb mouse
wouldn't work in 2.4.22. I tried a host of things, but no solution. Only
a little while ago it occurred to me that the boot process is looking
for a module mousedev, which doesn't seem to exist. But the little red
light on the mouse blinked during the boot process and a usb mouse *was*
being found. And it struck me, I had compiled the input devices support
(keyboard, mouse, etc) *into* the kernel and not as modules. And usb
support, at least parts of it, were compiled as modules. I recompiled
the kernel with the input devices as modules and sure enough got the
/kernel/drivers/input directory. Rebooted and tastes sweet taste of
success when the cute cursor obeyed my commands passed through the sleek
mouse :)
So, as per my understanding, compile the input devices support as
modules if your bootup process complains that it couldn't find mousedev.
HTH others too, because while googling I found quite a few messages with
similar symptoms but with no solutions that seemed to solve the reported
problem.
regards,
->HS
Keywords:
mousedev input 2.4.22 kernel menuconfig input driver kernel boot can't
cannot find module linux make-kpkg nvidia 4496
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