Bug 116033
| Summary: | /dev/psaux not found after upgrading kernel | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Casey Winans <casey> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-02-17 19:00:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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/dev/psaux has been superceded by /dev/input/mice in 2.6 please change your XFree config the rpm should do that automatically. Ok. That's fine and I've updated my XF86config to use /dev/input/mice. My question is why did all 2.6 kernels I've tried before 2.6.2-1.85 allow the use of /dev/psaux? Was it something you just caught, Arjan? /dev/psaux is the old legacy interface. We need to catch and convert all users of it, so disabling is the only way to do that ;) In addition X might open /dev/psaux AND /dev/input/mice and get events double that way. X normally deals with that but it can lead to weird situations. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I had a working X configuration with kernel 2.6.2-1.81 installed. I performed an update via 'yum update' and installed the recommended updates (kernel-2.6.2-1.85 being one of them). I rebooted using 2.6.2-1.85; when I typed 'startx' I was informed my mouse wasn't present. I spend much of day searching google and the mailing lists with not much help. So I rebooted using the 2.6.2-1.81 kernel and all is well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.2-1.85 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to kernel-2.6.2-1.85 2. Reboot 3. startx Actual Results: X windows starts and then fails with the following message: xf86OpenSerial: cannot open device /dev/psaux No such file or directory. Expected Results: X windows loads with cursor Additional info: I've reverted back to 2.6.2-1.81 with success.