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ventricle
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 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 7:47 am Post subject: MS Intellimouse Optical USB |
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I'm trying to make sure my mouse is installed and running properly, so I've tried to follow the desktop setup guide as well as the intellimouse thread on this forum, however there are a couple of things i can't seem to figure out.
I have the 'input, mousedev, hid' modules running (lsmod), but I'm unable to get usbcore or usb-uhci to work. Can someone explain how this is done?
Thanks.
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blidside
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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whats the output of modprobe hid?
is the kernel compiled for your athalon?
*if so, try recompiling for PIII (fixed my similar problem)
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ferringb
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| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| blidside wrote: | is the kernel compiled for your athalon?
*if so, try recompiling for PIII (fixed my similar problem) |
Dumb question/statement, but how would setting the kernel optimizations make any difference in usb? That seems like too much voodoo; side stepping the actual problem. Course I'm not suffering under the problem, so neh, what do I know... 
One thing I am curious about- personally, I have to load usbmouse alongside mousedev, hid, and input (usb-ohci)... I still haven't taken the time to figure out why? Do others suffer under the same req? If not, any ideas why? It's never bothered me enough to track down the actual reason/problem... |
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jimbo
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| Posted: Fri Apr 25, 2003 12:43 pm Post subject: this might help |
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Try re-compiling your kernel with the following options as modularized:
<M>Input core support
<M>Keyboard support
<M>Mouse support
<M>Support for usb
[*]Prelimenary USB device filesystem
<M>EHCI HCD
<M>UHCI
<M>OHCI
<M>USB Human Interface Device
[*]HID input layer support
[*]/dev/hiddev
<M>USB HIDBP
<M>USB HIDBP
Then just load your modules in this order:
UHCI (or OHCI, depending on your chipset)
EHCI-HCD (only if you have USB 2.0)
usbmouse
mousedev
Or, just install hotplug (#emerge hotplug; rc-update add hotplug default)
Hope this helps. |
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ferringb
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2003 7:03 am Post subject: |
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Thanks, but not what I'm after... It's not that I'm having problems getting usb going, I'm more so curious if anyone has managed to get by with just one of usbmouse/mousedev. Reason I ask, usbmouse creates /dev/usbmouse, and mousedev creates /dev/input/mouse0 (well, hid has a hand in it) and being anal, I wonder why the need for two seperate devices...
From my own fun screwing around with this a couple of months back, you need both modules loaded (along w/ the underlying usb modules) to get a mouse to function, period. Kind of annoying, I personally wonder why the need for both...
I was using hotplug for a while, but I ended up killing it since certain aspects of it were getting annoying/lack of need- I only use usb for my mouse... minor overkill from my standpoint (see the part about me being anal).
Either way, thanks anyways. |
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