Re: [2.4.21-rc1] USB Trackball broken

[David van Hoose]

David van Hoose wrote:
> Joe Korty wrote:
> 
>> Hi David, Nils,
>>
>> Nils, you have
>>
>>     CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
>>
>> which is correct.  David, you have
>>
>>     CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=m
>>
>> which is an illegal setting.  You must have hand-edited your config file
>> to get this.  My guess is, the '=m' is being treated as 'not set'.
>>
>> You also need to have CONFIG_INPUT (Input core support section) set.
>> If this is not set you will not see the CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT question
>> come up in the USB section.
> 
> 
> Actually I didn't.. Blame RedHat. I used their config for the template 
> for my kernel so I'd have fairly good compatibility. I'm compiling a 
> kernel now to see if that was the bug.

This was it! I now have a working trackball! Thanks all of you who 
helped me out. I'll post a bug report to RedHat now. :-)

Thanks!
David