Hi,
Sorry if this has been reported already, but I thought I'd add another
data point. I have an optical USB mouse marketed under the IBM brand.
(I'm certain some other company actually manufactures it). This mouse
works fine with the plain RedHat 7.2 installer.
However, it does not work at all with the SGI XFS 7.2 installer (version
1.0.2a). After finishing the install configuration and rebooting, X
refuses to start because it can't detect the mouse, even though the
mouse worked fine during the install process.
I tried loading all sorts of USB module configurations.. none would make
the mouse work. The controller would come up fine and cause my mouse to
"light up", but I would only get a strange error message that my HID
device didn't exist in some database and nothing was connected to
/dev/input/mice
I decided to build a new kernel using the kernel-sources package. For
this kernel I built all HID-related USB support in directly, not as a
module. After rebooting with the new kernel the mouse worked great.
I hope to see XFS support in the offical kernel tree/mainstream
distributions soon!
Cheers,
-DM
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