On 16-Mar-2002 stan wrote: > I'm finally installing my wife's new woody workstation this weekend. > > Much to my chagrin, I find out that the cable from the IR mouse reciever is > not long enough to reach from the computer (on the left of the desk) to > where the mouse needs to be (on the right). Fortunately the LCD display has > built in USB ports, and the mouse can do USB. > > So, what's involved in changing from PS/2 to USB on the mouse only (I don't > have a USB keyboard). >
you need usb in the kernel (module or otherwise). Then it is pretty easy to tell X the mouse is USB. The USB howto covers this well. See docs from kernel source Documentation/usb I believe.
