Re: mouse does not work in X (SOLVED)
i reinstalled CRUX & found that CRUX by default does not enable the mouse. one *has to* enable mouse support before compiling kernel
That's what people suggested you, IIRC.
of course people told me so & it was nearly unbelievable, that is why i did not reinstall when first time i heard about that. CRUX is the only Linux distro where, in Linux kernel, you have to "enable" mouse (out of SOURCEMAGE, Gentoo, Fedora, BLAG, Frugalware, Arch, gNewSense & some others i did not remember) but every distro has different set of features & targets a particular set of problems so it can not be said that one is bad & other is good.
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On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 07:40:17PM +0530, arnuld wrote: [...]
CRUX is the only Linux distro where, in Linux kernel, you have to "enable" mouse (out of SOURCEMAGE, Gentoo, Fedora, BLAG, Frugalware, Arch, gNewSense & some others i did not remember)
As Michele already said, there is no kernel configuration that comes with CRUX. What you see, if you run make menuconfig in a fresh tree, is the kernel-dev's "default" configuration. HTH Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux
On 12/24/06, Juergen Daubert <jue@jue.li> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 07:40:17PM +0530, arnuld wrote: [...]
CRUX is the only Linux distro where, in Linux kernel, you have to "enable" mouse (out of SOURCEMAGE, Gentoo, Fedora, BLAG, Frugalware, Arch, gNewSense & some others i did not remember)
As Michele already said, there is no kernel configuration that comes with CRUX. What you see, if you run make menuconfig in a fresh tree, is the kernel-dev's "default" configuration.
HTH Juergen
Hi Jue, This has me puzzled. I am installing the trial version of 2.3. To make my life easier I always copy the kernel from the CD into /boot and copy the modules from the CD also. That way I have no need to compile a kernel the first time, just get grub in and try it out. After setting that really useful variable LESSOPEN='|/usr/lib/less/filter %s' I was able to get the config used in the running CD kernel with less /proc/config.gz > gzconfig and then diff .config gzconfig showed it to be the same as the initial .config in the kernel source (except small difference in version and date). wishing you a happy New Year clare
On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 07:41:24PM +0900, Clare Johnstone wrote:
On 12/24/06, Juergen Daubert <jue@jue.li> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 07:40:17PM +0530, arnuld wrote: [...]
CRUX is the only Linux distro where, in Linux kernel, you have to "enable" mouse (out of SOURCEMAGE, Gentoo, Fedora, BLAG, Frugalware, Arch, gNewSense & some others i did not remember)
As Michele already said, there is no kernel configuration that comes with CRUX. What you see, if you run make menuconfig in a fresh tree, is the kernel-dev's "default" configuration.
HTH Juergen
Hi Jue,
Hi Clare,
This has me puzzled. I am installing the trial version of 2.3. To make my life easier I always copy the kernel from the CD into /boot and copy the modules from the CD also. That way I have no need to compile a kernel the first time, just get grub in and try it out. After setting that really useful variable LESSOPEN='|/usr/lib/less/filter %s' I was able to get the config used in the running CD kernel with less /proc/config.gz > gzconfig and then diff .config gzconfig showed it to be the same as the initial .config in the kernel source (except small difference in version and date).
yes, you are right, it's the same. I never noticed that setup copies the ISO kernel-config to /usr/src/linux-<version>. Whether that config is sensible as an starting point or not is another question, because there are lot of modules you never need enabled, and other more important might be not. Anyway, thanks for hint. Juergen -- Juergen Daubert | mailto:jue@jue.li Korb, Germany | http://jue.li/crux
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