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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:13:12 -0500 (EST)
From: "Georg Nikodym" <georgn@somanetworks.com>
To: John Jasen <jjasen@datafoundation.com>
Cc: William Knop <w_knop@hotmail.com>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Modules and DevFS
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>>>>> "JJ" == John Jasen <jjasen@datafoundation.com> writes:

 JJ> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, William Knop wrote:
 >> >One thing that I've noticed with devfs is that all the old-style
 >> >names are symlinks.
 >>
 >> Hmm... I have no symlinks until the module loads. Therefore X sees
 >> no /dev/input/mouse, doesn't ask the kernel for it, the kernel
 >> doesn't load the module, and DevFS doesn't add the /dev
 >> entry. There's got to be an easy way around this. Perhaps it has
 >> already been implimented, but I haven't been able to get anything
 >> to work well (manual loading for me).

 JJ> change your XF86Config file to point to /dev/psaux

Or /dev/input/mice if you use a USB thang.
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