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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 1:15 pm    Post subject: /dev/mouse: device not found Reply with quote

while configuring XFRee4.2 I ran into the following problem with my mouse (I ALWAYS have mouse problems with *nix *sigh*)

in fbsd I only got my mouse working under protocol:auto and device: /dev/ums0: no such device in linux
in suse it works find with protocol:imps/2 device:/dev/mouse

so I tried imps/2 and /dev/mouse in gentoo but he doesn't find that device

after looking around, I found some confusing things as ln -s, mknod, psaux and I tried those but failed miserably

in fbsd I'd say ./MAKEDEV mouse but in gentoo even /usr/sbin/makedev mouse didn't work

can anyone put me on the right path? thx
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What kind of mouse is it? Are you using devfsd?
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 08, 2002 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Logitech Optical MouseMan Wheel

I don't know if I'm using devfsd, but I read that it was there standard with the current release??
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 1:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is standard, but it does cause a few problems with the mouse setup sometimes. I'm not entirely sure if it's the same for a ps/2 mouse, but devfsd put my USB mouse on /dev/input/mouse0.

I went ahead and used that address in my XF86Config and gpm.conf simply because I didn't feel like trying to fix the devfsd borkage. However I did finally go in and fix the problem by using these lines in my /dev/devfsd.conf:

Code:

# Create /dev/mouse
LOOKUP          ^mouse$          CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink input/mouse0 mouse
REGISTER        ^input/mouse0$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL mksymlink $devname mouse
UNREGISTER      ^input/mouse0$     CFUNCTION GLOBAL unlink mouse

and then rebooting....

HTH
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 09, 2002 1:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

it didn't work :(
using /dev/input/mouse0 didn't work because I don't even have a /dev/input folder, and so changing the devfsd file didn't work either...

how can I create the /dev/input/mouse0 file then???

and why is this so hard? I'm using a standard mouse and all I get is problems: in fbsd I had to DISABLE usb support to make my USB mouse working and it only worked on protocol auto and device ums0 (I don't know who tries all the device/protocol combinations to get his mouse working, but fortunatily someone did it)
Then in a standard suse install it worked during the installation, but when loading suse it gave module errors so I had to fix those before my mouse worked, and now this!!!

is there some database with all the hardware and wich device you should use for it or something?
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 6:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Are you sure you have devfsd running? A quick
Code:
 ps -A|grep devfsd
should tell you for sure. Also double check that devfs support is compiled in your kernel.

Also, I am assuming you have enabled usb in the kernel. Check and see if the kernel is even recognizing the device:
Code:
 cat /proc/bus/usb/devices


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is there some database with all the hardware and wich device you should use for it or something?


Actually, I did find [url=lhd.zdnet.com]The Linux Hardware Database[/url]. Did a quick search for your mouse and came up with this info.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 10:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

yes! it finally works

devfsd was working, but /proc/bus/usb/devices this didn't exist

also the lhd tip didn't work

so I went into my kernel and both usb and devfsd were enabled, but a lot of other options that had to do with those weren't enabled, so I enabled them and the /dev/input/mice and /dev/input/mouse0 files were created!
the /proc/bus/usb/devices file is created too

I'm using the mice device now and everything is working great, in fact I'm posting this in gentoo :)

thx for all the help
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 10, 2002 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Cool!

Glad to to hear ya got it up and running!
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