Mandrake 10.1 Community - /dev/mouse missing

[aigplw]

Hello all,

I'm hoping someone can give me some insight into a peculiar problem
I've got after installing Mandrake 10.1 Community on a clean system.
After the install and X configuration, the mouse does not work in X11 -
the pointer appears, but does not respond to the mouse movements.
Upon investigation, the log indicates it can't open /dev/mouse - not
unreasonable as /dev/mouse doesn't exist ( as I found out ).

No problem, I thought - I'll symlink /dev/psaux to /dev/mouse, restart
X - it all works fine. But...after a reboot, /dev/mouse is gone again.
Of course, devfs controls that.

Ok, I run drakmouse, set the mouse correctly, reboot - still no
/dev/mouse. I copy /etc/devfs/conf.d/psaux.conf over the top of
/etc/devfs/conf.d/mouse.conf - still doesn't work - /dev/mouse still
missing after a reboot.

I change XF86Config to refer to /dev/psaux, reboot -- the mouse works
OK in X11.

While this is a simple workaround, why is /dev/mouse not being created
at boot-time ? Can anyone explain what's going on in devfs here ?

PS I am using a Logitech Mouseman w wheel via a KVM - but I don't see
what impact this should have, expeciially as the mouse was direct when I
installled the system.

Thanks for your time,

aigplw

[wakhy]

the same thing on my box ... same os

anybody? any ideas?

[jeremy1701]

I think this was a problem with the Community Edition. I belive it's fixed in the newest release, which is 10.1 Official.

Jeremy

[wakhy]

I think this was a problem with the Community Edition. I belive it's fixed in the newest release, which is 10.1 Official.

Jeremy

I updated everything ... but still no change ...

any ideas how to fix it?

[jeremy1701]

I don't, but I'll look around. In the mean time, anyone else...

Jeremy

[ajm8372]

I am having the same problem. Did anyone ever figure out how to fix this?