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Bug 116033 - /dev/psaux not found after upgrading kernel
Summary: /dev/psaux not found after upgrading kernel
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Whiteboard:
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-02-17 18:58 UTC by Casey Winans
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-02-17 19:00:58 UTC
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Description Casey Winans 2004-02-17 18:58:36 UTC 
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.
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2004-02-17 19:00:58 UTC 
/dev/psaux has been superceded by /dev/input/mice in 2.6
please change your XFree config
Comment 2 Thomas Covello 2004-02-17 22:04:15 UTC 
the rpm should do that automatically.
Comment 3 Casey Winans 2004-02-18 13:43:30 UTC 
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?
Comment 4 Arjan van de Ven 2004-02-18 13:45:00 UTC 
/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.
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