From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>
To: James Srinivasan <james_srinivasan@yahoo.com>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] HIL Mouse device cannot be opened
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 17:59:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020804215956.GF19482@systemhalted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020804211706.43184.qmail@web11201.mail.yahoo.com>
> I've followed the HOWTO for using a HIL mouse with
> XFree86 on my Apollo 715/33 but get the error message:
>
> xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No
> such device
>
> when executing startx. Indeed, cat /dev/input/mice
> also gives "No such device".
>
> I upgraded the kernel using apt-get - does the 2.4.18
> kernel available through this method support the HIL
> drivers?
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> James
Double check that you have:
- When using devfs
= Enabled input layer support in the kernel
- When not using devfs
= Have the device node entries for /dev/input/*
= And enabled input layer support in the kernel.
c.
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2002-08-04 21:17 [parisc-linux] HIL Mouse device cannot be opened James Srinivasan
2002-08-04 21:59 ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
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