[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: XF86Config-4 for 4.0.2-13



"Christian T. Steigies" wrote:

> I installed X4.0 on a Sony Vaio, it seems to have an ATI Rage128 Pro card

There is no such mobility chip. What does 'lspci|grep VGA' say?

> which is not yet supported by the ati driver (and the rage128 fails
> miserably to install..).

How does it fail to install?


> Using the VESA driver works fine, however creating the config file dows not
> work automatically.
> I am running a 2.2.19 kernel and I get this:
> Section "InputDevice"
>   Identifier      "Generic Mouse"
>   Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
>     Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> 
> There is no /dev/input/mice on my box, I selected psaux during configuring,
> but still /dev/input/mice is written in the config. I changed it by hand to
> /dev/psaux and it works fine then. Bug? Or do I need to run a 2.4 kernel or
> did I configure something wrong in my selfbuilt kernel?

/dev/input/mice is part of the New Input Layer (CONFIG_INPUT). The major and
minor numbers are 13 and 63 respectively (read
linux/Documentation/usb/input.txt .


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)    \   Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast   \        XFree86 and DRI project member



Reply to: