Kernel Bug?: Mousedev/Keybdev won't compile as modules

sohmc · 02-17-2004, 05:46 AM

I've gotten the 2.6.2 kernel to compile (FINALLY!!) but i'm having some problems with the HID support. It seems that when I boot up, it finds the USB devices, loads the correct drivers and jazz, and then it loads HID, then it says "keybdev modules not found" and "mousedev modules not found". When I look through the .config, keybdev and mousedev are built into the kernel. I've tried several times *manually* changing these "y"s to "m"s but didn't work.

any one know if this is how it's suppose to be? My assumption is that if those two modules are now suppose to be builtin, the kernel wouldn't look for them.

I'm not sure...

why I ask:
My keyboard and mouse (Logitech Cordless Desktop Pro) connect via USB to a hub, then to the computer. Every once in a while, it will stop responding until I move or click the mouse. Then it will repeat the character that I was typing until I move or click the mouse again (it has happened twice while I was writing this).

The same happens with the mouse. I move the mouse around, it freezes on-screen, then proceeds after I press a key on the keyboard.

Anyone have any thoughts as to what's causing this? I think building keybdev and mousedev as modules might do the trick because I don't get this behavior in 2.4.20-24

Thanks guys!

cTbone · 02-18-2004, 11:38 PM

I'm having similar problems and I found this tutorial:

http://www.geocities.com/asimshankar...migrate26.html

and I tried those USB tricks - so far no luck for me, i have to tweak it a little more it seems. Give it a try and maybe it'll work for you.

EDIT:
The same technique is also mentioned at the bottom of this page:

http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto01.shtml

I've modified both my modprobe.conf (and modprobe.conf.dist) along with my rc.sysinit file and I'm still getting errors.

from rc.sysinit:

Code:

needusbstorage=
if [ $usb = "1" ]; then
    needusbstorage=`LC_ALL=C grep -e "^I.*Cls=08" /proc/bus/usb/devices 2>/dev/null`
    LC_ALL=C fgrep 'hid' /proc/bus/usb/drivers || action $"Initializing USB HID interface: " modprobe hid 2> /dev/null
    action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe usbkbd 2> /dev/null
    action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe usbmouse 2> /dev/null
fi

from modprobe:

Code:

install usbmouse /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install usbmouse && { /sbin/modprobe hid; /bin/true; }

for substituting the "keybdev" into "usbkbd" and "mousedev" into "usbmouse", I found that this little perl piece works nice and fast:

perl -pi -e "s/oldword/newword/g;" filename

replace oldword, newword, and filename with the appropriate values.

sohmc · 02-21-2004, 07:44 AM

this worked. thanks!