Hi Darrell -
I can't think of anything xfs-specific that could cause this (although
perhaps there is something!)
When you say it works fine with the plain Red Hat 7.2 installer, does it
work with the Red Hat 2.4.9-13 kernel update as well? "Stock" Red Hat
installs a 2.4.7 kernel...
-Eric
On 28 Nov 2001, Darrell Michaud wrote:
> 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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