On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 23:16, William Anderson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > OK. > > I had a Toshiba 460CDT that was nice until the power supply board fried. > Replaced it with a Toshiba Satellite 2675DVD that I am now using. > > You are not using a USB mouse or keyboard and are receiving "module not > found" errors with the new kernel that did not include them and you want > to know how to stop the errors. I saw the same problem on the old laptop > when running RH9 and a kernel (2.4 something) that I compiled myself. > You can do two things, disable what ever tries to load the USB HID > modules, or ignore the errors like I did. > > For the "not seeing mouse" part of question 1, what device does your > XFree86.config file is it looking for? The section of my configuration > file looks like this (from xorg.conf on a FC2 install): > > Section "InputDevice" > ~ Identifier "Mouse0" > Driver "mouse" > ~ Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" > ~ Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" > EndSection > > > The options will be different but what we are interested in is device > line, in FC1 it should be something like "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/psaux". > Do either of these device names appear in your XFree86.config file? If > one does, does the actual device file exist on your system? /dev/mouse > is a symbolic link to /dev/psaux on my system. If you need to create it > run the command as root: > ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse > > /dev/psaux is a device file with major number 10 and minor number 1. > This file should already be there but if it is missing, run, as root: > mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1 > > If the device file that X is expecting from the configuration file does > not exist, then X will not start, as you are experiencing. > > For question 2, doing the upgrade over the network would be easiest. I > have done this using a NFS mount, but a FTP server can be used. I do not > know about a Samba/Windows networking share as I have never had the > need. You need to copy the rpms off of the four cdroms into a single > directory tree on the network accessible file system matching the CDROM > directory structure. Mostly, this means copying the RPM files from the > CD into the Fedora/RPMS directory and make it available over the > network. Next you need to copy the install kernel onto the laptop and > configure grub or lilo to boot that kernel instead of the normal system > kernel. Exactly how I do not know but others have described the process > in other threads over the last month (September). > > Problem 3, sound, should be configured automatically as a part of the > upgrade process. > > Let me know if this helps, > > William > > > W. Guy Thomas wrote: > | On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 22:04, William Anderson wrote: > | > |>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > |>Hash: SHA1 > |> > |>Hi, > |> > |>The stub pointer thing, an IBM Trackpoint II, on my Toshiba laptop is a > |>ps2 mouse and has nothing to do with the USB subsystem. Did you enable > |>the ps2 mouse drivers when you configured your new kernel? > |> > |>I hope that this helps, > |> > |>William > | > | > <snip>| > | 1. How to fix kernel upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 having USB loading > | problems, not seeing mouse, thus killing X at boot. > | > | 2. How to upgrade from FC1 to FC2 with no cdrom. (I am experimenting > | with this right now however...fingers crossed.) > | > | 3. Sound drivers with ALSA. We'll keep this for last. Number 1 and 2 are > | tops right now. > | > | Thanks guys. Let me check this attempted upgrade. I will try this mouse fix and look at the X86 files in a few moments. I am catching up on 250 emails from yesterday. This is good stuff, I believe I am near the quest to put Fedora on this little laptop. Fluxbox helped a *great* deal with performance! Back in a bit. =G
