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csutomi

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 9

USB mouse, hard disk and device mapper

Hi!

I have a Fujitsu Siemens Laptop and I compiled a kernel (2.6.21.5) for it on an other linux distribution few months ago. I installed the arch no panic! version.

I wanted to change the kernel, because the arch linux kernel doesn't support my USB mouse (It works, but it is so, as if I played an OpenGL game without 3D support (slow and hard to use)).

So my new kernel doesn't work, because it searches hda instead of sda.

It's a 3rd problem, that my kernel doesn't support dm-mod (device mapper).

My questions are:
Where can I find these options during the compilation of the kernel? So where is the device mapper module, why doesn't work the usb mouse with arch kernel and whan can I do, if I wanted to see sda instead of hda?

oli

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Re: USB mouse, hard disk and device mapper

>why doesn't work the usb mouse

Maybe you should first tell us something about your hardware, especially what mouse you're speaking off.

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csutomi

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 9

Re: USB mouse, hard disk and device mapper

It's a Genius Optical Mouse. The lsusb shows this (on my working kernel on the other distribution):

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0458:003a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems)
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

And dmesg shows:

input: Genius       Optical Mouse as /class/input/input6
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbmouse
drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver

And I have pata hard disk and VIA chipset.

csutomi

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 9

Re: USB mouse, hard disk and device mapper

Here is the solution for hda/sda problem:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=279170

Remains the mouse and device mapper problem.

csutomi

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From: Hungary

Registered: 2007-09-10

Posts: 9

Re: USB mouse, hard disk and device mapper

The device mapper can be found here:
device drivers -> multi-device support -> device mapper support

This information can be useful for others.