[OLPC-devel] what is this?

Ronald G Minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Thu Aug 3 17:55:31 EDT 2006


Chris Ball wrote:
> Ron,
> 
>    > Now I need to get X to start. Anybody got an xorg.conf for a usb
>    > mouse? I'm getting nowhere as I have no corepointer ... kernel sees
>    > the USB mouse as shown be dmesg.
> 
> Changing the device to /dev/input/mice should do it:
> 
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "PS/2"
> EndSection
> 
> - Chris.

I thought so too but ... udev is not setting up any kind of /dev/input.

Where to look? The config files look ok ...

ron



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