[ale] USB is killing me

[Christopher Fowler]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:20:56PM -0400, Dow Hurst wrote:
> I'd like to hear from you how the new kernel works out.  How will it
> help you?

The new kernel works great.  Works fine with the tiny mouse and ps2 
mouse too.

I think the key was using oldconfig to merge the old RedHat 2.4.20.XXXX
config with the new 2.4.22.  When I upgrade kernels on RH I normally just
download them from ftp.kernel.org.  Instead of having to walk through the
whole menuconfig and turning modules on everything I simply copy the file over.

One thing that is confusing me is ACPI.

On 2.4.21 it seems that the battery was at
/proc/acpi/battery/0

Now on 2.4.22 it is at
/proc/acpi/batter/BAT0

What hurts the worst is that I modified programs to look
for a digit dir in the battery directory.  I'm not sure what is up
with ACPI.  On a laptop it is important to know what the 
battery time left is.


> Dow
> 
> 
> >>> cfowler at outpostsentinel.com 09/14/03 13:39 PM >>>
> I got it to work.
> 
> 1) cp linux-2.4.20-20.9/.config linux-2.4.22
> 2) cd linux-2.4.22
> 3) make oldconfig
> 4) make dep && make bzImage && make modules && make modules_install
> 5) cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.4.22
> 6) init 6
> 
> It works!
> 
> The recomendation about oldconfig came from some guys on linux-usb.
> 
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 01:08:19PM -0400, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I see CONFIG_MOUSE is not set.  How does that effect Tocupad
> operartion.
> > I have an internal touchpad that use psaux and I plan on useing an
> external
> > tiny usb mouse too.
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:47:52PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > Hi Chris,
> > > 
> > > Yes.  I'm using a built in Synoptics touch pad on a Toshiba laptop. 
> The
> > > pad works on /dev/psaux with stock kernels.  However, it works much
> > > better as a USB device (/dev/input/mice).
> > > 
> > > I've put my .config file at
> > >
> http://jimpop.net/stuff/2003-09-14-linux-2.4.22-toshiba-usb-kernel-config
> > > 
> > > I've also put my XF86Config file here:
> > > http://jimpop.net/stuff/2003-09-14-toshiba-geforce-XF86Config
> > > 
> > > hth,
> > > 
> > > -Jim P.
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-09-14 at 12:34, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > > Is your usb mouse working?
> > > > 
> > > > On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 11:13:06AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 21:51, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > I'm starting to think this may be part of RH's kernel mods.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I scraped RH's kernel and went w/ source from kernel.org.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > -Jim P.
> > > > > 
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