USB Mouse Problems [SOLVED]

CrEsPo · Last edited by CrEsPo on Sun Sep 10, 2006 1:37 am; edited 1 time in total

I've been trying to get my USB mouse to install for about a day now. I've had no luck so I thought I'd post.

xorg.conf

Fallen_Angel · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 57 Location: Germany

Try gpm first so you can be sure it is not your xorg-config.

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-libs/gpm

this one is setup in my xorg.conf for usb-mouse

1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569

I think you need CONFIG_USB_IDMOUSE.

I installed a new system recently, and for the first time tried to get X working in Gentoo. There seemed to be several changes in the kernel which weren't like that a couple months ago. One was the IDE disk driver being gone, and the other involved the mouse. I think they became non-automatic very recently.

Anyway, I had the same problem you did, my mouse would not work. I have almost exactly the same settings as yours, except the IDMOUSE one.

CrEsPo · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject:

Concerning CONFIG_USB_IDMOUSE, I looked at that earlier, but didn't think it had anything to do with my problem because it's labeled as "Siemens ID USB Mouse Fingerprint sensor support" and is described as:

1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569

Somewhere in the documentation, there's a troubleshooting tip where you cat /dev/mouse or something like that, and when you move the mouse around garbage comes out on the terminal. If you get garbage, your mouse driver works. If not, then you need to fix your kernel.

Here's what I have:

CrEsPo · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:56 am Post subject:

Well, IDMOUSE didn't work, like I suspected.

Thanks for reminding me about the 'cat' option, I forgot to post about it in my first post. What I noticed was I don't get any characters when doing 'cat /dev/input/mice', the problem is I don't get any characters even with my working mouse. I know it's supposed to produce output, but for some reason the working mouse isn't producing any output at all, which is weird because on my Gentoo 64 bit install it was producing output. This leads me to believe I'm missing something big in the kernel somewhere, because why else would I get no output from a working mouse?

Thanks for posting your config, after taking a look at it I realize I have the exact same thing, with the exception of having 'CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=y', which is support for older mice.

<i>edit: I just forgot to mention I tried making mousedev a module, but that did not work either.</i>

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject:

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1clue · Advocate Joined: 05 Feb 2006 Posts: 2569

Do you have a /dev/input/mouse0?

I turned on a whole bunch of stuff in the kernel in hopes of getting it to work. When it worked, I went on to something else because I had to get my system running. One of these days I'll try to narrow down what really needs to happen on my system.

For what it's worth, until you figure out which device the mouse is hooked to, screwing with your X config is pointless and can only make things worse.

I just checked, mouse0 and mice both produce output in my system. You're missing something in your kernel, or a device isn't loaded, or something. Maybe it has to do with something not USB or MOUSE specific?

CrEsPo · Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the replies and sorry for such a late reply. I got busy suddenly and couldn't really work on anything. I have other stuff to do soon, but once done I decided I'm going to run genkernel and see if I can get it working with a generated kernel. If so I can comapre the two and see if I have anything missing from my manually configured kernel. I'll post back the results, by the way, I have the following in '/dev/input':