From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261167AbVCGNyc (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:54:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261181AbVCGNyY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:54:24 -0500 Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.21]:43414 "EHLO mailout10.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261180AbVCGNxw (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:53:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:53:36 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-UMS: email X-Mailer: TOI Kommunikationscenter V5-0PL2 Subject: Problems with GPM / loading kernel module during boot From: "RG.Schneider@t-online.de" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <1D8Ifw-2JN4ym0@cmpmail10.bbul.t-online.de> X-ID: E29pxwZZZejo0IQJPuFFHC2OA1BPSZEvu7Odo+G+ZabiyZAAHjBY8X@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: 85f461be-afec-4873-8ae8-a45625012f21 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I found a problem since I started to use the 2.6 kernel release. I use the console mouse tool gpm. It is started the usual way with a script '/etc/init.d/gpm' and symbolic links in the runlevel directories '/etc/rcX.d" . When I installed gpm ( Debian Distribution ) I wondered that gpm was not active after booting. I had to call '/etc/init.d/gpm start' after login as root to make it working. I started to look at the problem after login and everything else seemed to be ok, even lsmod showed the neccessary modules - psmouse ... - in this case for gpm. I stopped gpm ( gpm -k ) , unloded the psmouse ... and restarted gpm again. Not working but psmouse was loaded again. So I thought that the request to the kernel to load the modules corresponding to '/dev/psaux' took too long for gpm to come up. To validate this, I made an entry 'psmouse' into the file '/etc/modules' - the list of modules that are loaded during boot. This solved the problem. QUESTION:: Is this a special problem for thegpm program or a general problem for all programs/drivers that are trying to access a device node and forcing the kernel to load the approciate module(s)? /RalfS