Re: Modules and DevFS

[Georg Nikodym]

>>>>> "JJ" == John Jasen <[e-mail]> writes:

 JJ> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, William Knop wrote:
 >> >One thing that I've noticed with devfs is that all the old-style
 >> >names are symlinks.
 >>
 >> Hmm... I have no symlinks until the module loads. Therefore X sees
 >> no /dev/input/mouse, doesn't ask the kernel for it, the kernel
 >> doesn't load the module, and DevFS doesn't add the /dev
 >> entry. There's got to be an easy way around this. Perhaps it has
 >> already been implimented, but I haven't been able to get anything
 >> to work well (manual loading for me).

 JJ> change your XF86Config file to point to /dev/psaux

Or /dev/input/mice if you use a USB thang.