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Hi All,
I have just built a "Linux from Scratch" system
which so far seems to have worked well. (yes I am a bit of a newbie so be
gentle!)
I have gpm
(1.20.0) startup in my sysvinit scripts and my /etc/sysconfig/mouse has the
MDEVICE set to /dev/input/mice.
For device management, I solely use devfs (the
latest version) (ie. I do not use /dev/pts at all).
The problem I seem to be having is gpm program
doesn't seem to trigger the devfs program to automatically load the appropriate
mouse drivers. (I have a Microsoft USB Optical Wheel Mouse and the gpm PROTOCOL
is set to "imps2"). The error I get is a "Device /dev/input/mice not found".
If I have modprobe usb-uhci, input, hid and
mousedev statements somewhere in my rc startup scripts, the mouse driver loads
and gpm works perfectly, however the way my newbie Linux mind expected it
would work is that since gpm would want the mouse device, then devfs would get a
call for it and load the appropriate driver modules by itself?
Is gpm fully devfs "compliant"? ie. would this be a
problem with gpm or devfs? (or is it my lack of knowledge meaning that all is ok
and I do have to leave the modprobes in the startups to load the drivers
manually? hmm....doesn't sound right to me).
PS: I have tested my modules setup by mounting my
windows drive and lsmod shows new modules loaded, so there doesn't seem to be a
problem in the way I have setup my modules as they are auto sensing and loading
properly for other things.
Regards,
Frank
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