All you Gurus: I can't work this out! (neither can Google!)
My USB mouse does not work. The lights are on but nobodies home... Kernel is bf2.4 unstable Kernel has been compiled for USB mouse. XFree86 is: 4.2.1 dmesg shows: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16) hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2 input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Logitech] on usb1:2.0 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.17, 10 Jan 2002 on ide0(3,9), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1. XFree86.0.log shows: (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse0: Buttons: 5 (**) Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" (**) USB Mice: Protocol: "IMPS/2" (**) Option "SendCoreEvents" (**) USB Mice: always reports core events (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) USB Mice: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "USB Mice" (II) UnloadModule: "mouse" (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) but lsmod shows: Module Size Used by Not tainted soundcore 3236 0 (autoclean) radeon 92472 0 ds 6624 2 i82365 22416 2 pcmcia_core 41408 0 [ds i82365] irtty 7456 2 (autoclean) irda 138796 1 (autoclean) [irtty] nls_cp437 4384 4 (autoclean) cpuid 1184 0 (unused) apm 9148 2 usbmouse 1760 0 (unused) hid 18816 0 (unused) orinoco 29568 0 (unused) hermes 3296 0 [orinoco] ieee1394 23528 0 (unused) keybdev 1664 0 (unused) usbkbd 2848 0 (unused) input 3072 0 [usbmouse hid keybdev usbkbd] usb-uhci 20708 0 (unused) usbcore 48032 0 [usbmouse hid usbkbd usb-uhci] So I used usbmouse as driver: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "USB Mice" Driver "usbmouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" # Option "Buttons" "5" EndSection and got this: (**) Option "Protocol" "PS/2" (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "PS/2" (**) Option "CorePointer" (**) Mouse0: Core Pointer (**) Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Mouse0: Buttons: 5 (EE) No Input driver matching `usbmouse' (II) Keyboard "Keyboard0" handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE) I tried: /etc/init.d/gpm stop as suggested here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12780&highlight=debian+usb+mouse which returned: bash: /etc/init.d/gpm: no such file or directory I also tried: mknod --mode=600 /dev/input/mice c 13 63 (same post) returned /dev/input/mice: file exists... Where do I go from here? Cheers
