Michal Zeravik wrote:
Ok, It's done. I've rebuild nvidia drivers for new kernel but X still completely hangs computer.Well, rpm 2.6. is installed with deps solved. I've rebuild nvidia glx video driverYou might need to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config and change the reference to "/dev/psaux" to "/dev/input/mice"
but X hangs my computer. There were some mouse and keyb failures.
Any ideas?
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # change this to "/dev/input/mice" for later versions of the 2.6 kernel.
Don't know what doest it mean.
If you are running both the 2.4 and the 2.6 kernel for different reasons. You will either have to edit the XF86Config file when changing from one kernel to the other version or use a symlink from "/dev/mouse" to point to "/dev/psaux" for the 2.4 kernel and to "/dev/input/mice" for the 2.6 kernel.I don't understand. How can I do one symlink to two destinations?
You'd just have /dev/mouse in your XF86Config fle and would have to run a script to change where the symlink points to, depending on the kernel version that you are running. Personally, I just log in as root, run mc, then edit the XF86Config file and change the line to the correct mouse device. On my system, /dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/psaux. I use /dev/psaux instead of referencing the /dev/mouse symlink.
I was thinking that you might be able to come up with a script that echoes the computer that you are running and sets the symlink /dev/mouse to point to the correct real device driver. I guess you could echo the output of "uname -r" and change the symlink based on the output. (2.4* or 2.6* or something)
About the nvidia driver locking up X, did you rpm -e the mesa drivers before you installed the nvidia drivers? I have a computer that has nvidia video. I never tried to put Linux on it because of the closed drivers though. I seem to remember that the mesa drivers supplied with XFree86 conflict with library files or something. You might want to browse the list archives for the details. I believe it was discussed at length a month or so ago.
Good luck on getting the nvidia driver to work.
Jim
kPITA, but the later kernels are built without /dev/psaux. Yes, I noticed that.
Jim
Thank you Jim. michalz
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