Add faketty stability

[Yitzhak B. G. <yit...@ya...>]

I solved erratic behavior of faketty by preloading it
- added faketty to /etc/modprobe.preload under
Mandriva 10.2.
Yitzhak

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>    1. Vertical mouse problem solution (Yitzhak Bar
> Geva)
>    2. Re: faketty 0.04 problem. (Nathan Hoult)
> > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 21:01:50 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Yitzhak Bar Geva <yit...@ya...>
> Subject: Vertical mouse problem solution
> To: lin...@li...
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> Really funny. We don't know what causes the vertical
> mouse problem. It only occurs when working with
> faketty, but after performing:
> service hotplug restart
> everything works OK.
> Yitzhak
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> 
> > From: "Nathan Hoult" <ho...@ho...>
> To: ai...@un...
> CC: lin...@li...
> Subject: Re: faketty 0.04 problem.
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:22:44 +0000
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> >On Pirmdiena, 10. Oktobris 2005 18:05, Nathan Hoult
> wrote:
> >>I am using kernel 2.6.13 and trying to get
> faketty-0.04 to work.
> >>I managed to make the ftty devices, (mknod
> /dev/ftty[0-9] c 13 96) and
> 
> >Do You realy use mknod? If that is right, then You
> must do
> >mknod /dev/ftty0 c 13 96
> >mknod /dev/ftty1 c 13 97
> >mknod /dev/ftty2 c 13 98
> >...
> 
> ummm I did:
> mknod /dev/ftty0 c 13 96
> mknod /dev/ftty1 c 13 96
> mknod /dev/ftty2 c 13 96
> ...
> 
> I never used mknod before and after 1 hour of
> searching I couldn't find 
> documentation on what I needed to run exactly. I
> scanned the man page of 
> mknod, searched google, read the doctument about
> multiple X, and the only 
> thing I could find on this mailing list about it was
> the "mknod /dev/ftty0 c 
> 13 96" in the 0.04 release notes. Where is this
> information that I missed?
> 
> Anyhow, did it like you said above and now it picks
> up the other keyboards. 
> Sorry for my ignorance in this area and I appreciate
> the help, keep up the 
> good work!
> 
> Now to get a dual core Ath64, dual PCIe 16x, raid
> SATA, and dual 1gig sticks 
> of ram some day...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> >Aivils
> >>/dev/ftty0 picks up only one of the keyboards, but
> /dev/ftty[1-9] don't
> >>pick up any other keyboard. I figured this out
> using 'cat /dev/ftty[1-9]'.
> >>Other than that I managed to get a second X up
> with a second mouse, but no
> >>keyboard input. One thing that confuses me is 'cat
> 
> >>/proc/bus/input/devices'
> >>returns back the keyboards/mice and shows that
> some of the keyboards are
> >>handled by ftty[1-9] (e.g: H: Handlers=kbd event2
> ftty1)
> >>
> >>I have hooked up 4 keyboards (1 PS/2, 3 USB) and 3
> mice trying to get this
> >>to work. Any idea what could be wrong?
> 
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