Where are 2.6.x upgrade notes?
I'm trying to upgrade to 2.6.1 and running into a number of roadblocks. Before I start asking stupid questions on mailing lists I'm wonder if there's a document that lists the typical problems people will run into upgrading?
So far I've bumped into and knew or found how to solve:
. Need to install module-init-tools package
. Need to migrate modules.conf to modprobe.conf
In my case it doesn't load sound drivers without it
. Alsa starts muted (Everyone knows that right?)
I still have a few problems that I'm stumped on:
. I still get no sound even though every channel is unmuted and the volume
raised and there are no errors.
Incidentally, which version of Alsa is included in 2.6.1? Is it the 1.0.1 release? Or a pre 1.0 release? There are no version numbers anywhere that I can find in the dmesg output or the source.
. Mouse wheel doesn't work in X
Surely these are common problems that everyone's faced and there's a simple Upgrade FAQ somewhere like there was with 2.4?
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greg
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Upgrade FAQ somewhere like there was with 2.4?
Kind of, yes. A lengthy document, but still... I think the 'Known Gotchas' section could be extended by new problems that might appear. ALSA being muted issue is not included there.
http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt
Regards,
Maciej
Quoted 3 lines · Maciej Soltysiak
I think the 'Known Gotchas' section could be extended by new problems that might appear. ALSA being muted issue is not included there.
I take patches..
Dave
No mouse wheel under 2.6.1 [Was: Re: Where are 2.6.x upgrade notes?]
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Upgrade FAQ somewhere like there was with 2.4?
Kind of, yes. A lengthy document, but still... I think the 'Known Gotchas' section could be extended by new problems that might appear. ALSA being muted issue is not included there.
Well I think ALSA being muted will catch lots of people. As luck would have it it was the one thing I knew about in advance and it didn't help. As far as I can tell the Alsa i810 driver just doesn't produce audio at all. I tried both the kernel source and the 1.0.1 source. Thankfully the OSS drivers still work.
But I'm still stuck with no mouse wheel. I'm really weirded out by this. I've tried both /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mouse0 and neither allow X to receive anything for the mouse wheel.
I'm using protocol MousemanPlusPS/2 with this logitech M-C48 mouse, which has always worked fine in the past. I just verified it still works fine under 2.4.23pre4 with the same version of X.
Does it work for anyone else?
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greg
Re: No mouse wheel under 2.6.1 [Was: Re: Where are 2.6.x upgrade notes?]
* Greg Stark <[email protected]>:
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Well I think ALSA being muted will catch lots of people. As luck would have it it was the one thing I knew about in advance and it didn't help. As far as I can tell the Alsa i810 driver just doesn't produce audio at all. I tried both the kernel source and the 1.0.1 source. Thankfully the OSS drivers still work.
It sure works here.
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Re: No mouse wheel under 2.6.1 [Was: Re: Where are 2.6.x upgrade notes?]
In reply to Greg StarkQuoted 9 lines · Greg Stark
Quoted 6 lines · Maciej Soltysiak
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Upgrade FAQ somewhere like there was with 2.4?
Kind of, yes. A lengthy document, but still... I think the 'Known Gotchas' section could be extended by new problems that might appear. ALSA being muted issue is not included there.
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Well I think ALSA being muted will catch lots of people. As luck would have it it was the one thing I knew about in advance and it didn't help. As far as I can tell the Alsa i810 driver just doesn't produce audio at all. I tried both the kernel source and the 1.0.1 source. Thankfully the OSS drivers still work.
I am using ALSA with 2.6. I needed to enable the OSS emulation API to get sound working for me.
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But I'm still stuck with no mouse wheel. I'm really weirded out by this. I've tried both
/dev/psauxand/dev/input/mouse0and neither allow X to receive anything for the mouse wheel.I'm using protocol MousemanPlusPS/2 with this logitech M-C48 mouse, which has always worked fine in the past. I just verified it still works fine under 2.4.23pre4 with the same version of X.
Does it work for anyone else?
I have a Logitech cordless optical mouse. I run it with IMPS/2 protocol in both console and X mode. My XF86Config shows mouse input devices at /dev/psaux and /dev/input/mice.
Re: No mouse wheel under 2.6.1 [Was: Re: Where are 2.6.x upgrade notes?]
In reply to Greg StarkQuoted 5 lines · Greg Stark
I'm using protocol MousemanPlusPS/2 with this logitech M-C48 mouse, which has always worked fine in the past. I just verified it still works fine under 2.4.23pre4 with the same version of X.
Does it work for anyone else?
I had the same problem. Switching protocol from MousemanPlusPS/2 to ImPS2 in XF86Config-4 fixed it.
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Joaquim
Re: No mouse wheel under 2.6.1 [Was: Re: Where are 2.6.x upgrade notes?]
Quoted 2 lines · Joaquim Fellmann
I had the same problem. Switching protocol from MousemanPlusPS/2 to ImPS2 in XF86Config-4 fixed it.
One Mr Pavlik solved the same issue on bugzilla:
------- Additional Comment #1 From Vojtech Pavlik 2004-01-14 09:35 ------- Use protocol "ExplorerPS/2" in XFree86. This may not seem logical, but because 2.6 handles the Logitech mouse protocol itself and presents a more common Microsoft-like protocol to applications that don't know how to use its native event protocol.
I wonder how the IM and Explorer protocols relate.
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greg
Re: No mouse wheel under 2.6.1 [Was: Re: Where are 2.6.x upgrade notes?]
Quoted 7 lines · Greg Stark
Quoted 2 lines · Joaquim Fellmann
I had the same problem. Switching protocol from MousemanPlusPS/2 to ImPS2 in XF86Config-4 fixed it.
One Mr Pavlik solved the same issue on bugzilla:
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------- Additional Comment #1 From Vojtech Pavlik 2004-01-14 09:35 ------- Use protocol "ExplorerPS/2" in XFree86. This may not seem logical, but because 2.6 handles the Logitech mouse protocol itself and presents a more common Microsoft-like protocol to applications that don't know how to use its native event protocol.
I wonder how the IM and Explorer protocols relate.
ExplorerPS/2 is a superset of ImPS/2. The kernel virtual mouse device (/dev/input/mice) supports both protocols, and standard PS/2 as well.
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Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR