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mcgr
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI USA
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 Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject: loading mouse drivers |
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I have an HP laptop(AMD Athlon XP) that I want to determine if the mouse drivers are installed, but can't tell by way of "dmesg"
How else can I tell? This is preventing me from starting X, seeing that the Mouse setting in /etc/X11/XFConfig is not valid because of a device not found error.
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adaptr
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| Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject: Re: loading mouse drivers |
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| mcgr wrote: | | I have an HP laptop(AMD Athlon XP) that I want to determine if the mouse drivers are installed, but can't tell by way of "dmesg" |
That's correct - dmesg will never tell you this.
Start with
to see which modules (not drivers) are loaded (not installed) by the LiveCD - this will tell you what you need.
In a way, your question is strange - you have built a system, so you have also specified which mouse device you would like to use.
If you don't specify this when building a kernel I can guarantee you it won't work.
| mcgr wrote: | | How else can I tell? |
may help, as well as trying directly:
for a PS/2 device, or
| Code: | | cat /dev/input/mice |
for a USB one.
Move the mouse around; if you see garbage then that's the one 
But again - this is a really strange question: you have to know what mouse driver you need somewhere along the road to get your Gentoo system up and running.
The system will not tell you this - you need to tell it.
| mcgr wrote: | | This is preventing me from starting X, seeing that the Mouse setting in /etc/X11/XFConfig is not valid because of a device not found error. |
The Mouse device setting in XF86Config is probably fine - you just need to tell it which device to actually use as a mouse.
Impossible to tell without more info.
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