[vox-tech] FYI: Trick to get around 2.6.8 kernel "mousedev" bug for Wacom use on Thinkpad T20

[Bill Kendrick]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 06:35:52PM -0400, Mike Simons wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:12:20PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > Googling some more, I then discovered that there's a bug in the
> > "mousedev" module in the 2.6.8 Kernel (the latest easily-available in
> > Debian/Testing at the moment... I don't feel like a Kernel recompile ;^) ):
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> If you apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 ... from testing, at the moment,
> you'll get 2.6.12.
> 
> I was surprised to find the name of the kernel-image package was changed
> recently, and I'm guessing it was to make room for alternative kernels
> (hurd, freebsd, etc)...

Ah, maybe I was aptitude search'ing "kernel-image" :)

Cool!


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