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ralvy

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From: Santa Monica, California

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 275

No mouse after udev upgrade this morning [SOLVED]

I notice that after letting pacman remove hotplug and upgrade udev this morning, I have no  mouse after loading KDE. I only use current and extra repositories. :cry:

Dusty

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From: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

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Re: No mouse after udev upgrade this morning [SOLVED]

are you using the hwdetect scripts in rc.conf? If not, you probably need to load a module. Is it a USB mouse?

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ralvy

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From: Santa Monica, California

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 275

Re: No mouse after udev upgrade this morning [SOLVED]

are you using the hwdetect scripts in rc.conf? If not, you probably need to load a module. Is it a USB mouse?

Dusty

Thanks, Dusty. After posting that message, I found what I needed in the mailling discussion. I followed the rules for using hwdetect and all is well now. First I tried using hwd, but that didn't help. But hwdetect did.

leviathan

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Registered: 2005-11-04

Posts: 26

Re: No mouse after udev upgrade this morning [SOLVED]

I also updated and have the exact same problem  :?

Solution?

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ralvy

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From: Santa Monica, California

Registered: 2004-12-06

Posts: 275

Re: No mouse after udev upgrade this morning [SOLVED]

I also updated and have the exact same problem  :?

Solution?

This was posted by Judd Vinet:

Hey all,

Just a quick note to remind you that the latest udev will be removing
hotplug from your system, as it is deprecated now.

See this news post: http://www.archlinux.org/news.php#189

NOTE: If you were using hotplug in your DAEMONS array to auto-load your
modules, you should replace it with one of the other auto-detection
utilities: hwdetect or hwd.

To use hwd: Just install the lshwd package and replace hotplug with hwd
in your DAEMONS array.

To use hwdetect: Look for a line in /etc/rc.conf that starts with
MOD_AUTOLOAD and set it to "yes". If you don't have the line, add it:

    MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

HWD didn't work for me. HWDETECT did.

leviathan

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Registered: 2005-11-04

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Re: No mouse after udev upgrade this morning [SOLVED]

Solved, Tnx 

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Grady

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Registered: 2005-12-26

Posts: 10

Re: No mouse after udev upgrade this morning [SOLVED]

hwd worked fine here, thanks a lot for pasting the how-to!