[NTLUG:Discuss] Kernel 2.6.13.x considerations...

[Spicerun]

Leroy Tennison wrote:
> I hate to throw cold water on the udev discussion but /dev/input/mice 
> caused me problems as best as I can tell.  The default SuSE 9.2 
> install used that.  Problem was I has to set psmouse.proto={bare | 
> imps} as a kernel parameter to keep the mouse behavior from being 
> crazy (greatly exaggerated responses to mouse movements if they were 
> predictable at all).  When I did and rebooted X presented a message 
> "New Hardware Found".  Reluctantly I let it configure the "new 
> hardware" (I had a sane mouse at that moment) and it did without 
> negative effect.
Are you sure that kudzu wasn't detecting the new hardware?  I have never 
seen X take the initiate to detect anything new, but rather just say if 
it could find the device or not, and decide to either run or not run.  I 
have a feeling kudzu (or something automatic like it) is the culprit, 
and that you might need to prevent it from deciding to overwrite your 
files for you.  kudzu has been known to be wrong from time to time.  
Your ultimate devices that X pays attention to are the ones in xorg.conf 
or XF86Config(-4) files AFAIK.
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