Installing Logitech USB Mouse with Kernel 2.4.16

[bknight83]

I installed Red Hat 7.3 on my laptop, and everything works pretty well except the external mouse. I tried editing the XF86Config by adding the new section on InputMouse. However that didn't work, so I tried a few other methods I found on the net, including adding the ScreenLayout (b/c that wasn't there originially) and linking /dev/mouse/, but that didn't work either. I'm a newbie and I dont' have that great of an understanding of how things work.

These are specs of the laptop:

IBM ThinkPad T22
900 MHz PIII
256 MB RAM
3GB Partition for Linux
Red Hat 7.3
Kernel 2.4.16


Any help will be appreciated!

Bryan Knight

[mdwatts]

Since I don't have a usb mouse (or keyboard) and until another JL member can offer assistance, try these JL forum search results for 'logitech usb mouse' (http://justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=650881&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) to see if you can find instructions to help.

[Hayl]

fisrt, you should take a look at dmesg and see if USB is working properly on your system.

dmesg | less

then you should try to find out what device the mosue is using

cd /dev/input

and then cat each of the devices - while you are cat'ing move the mouse around. which ever file gives you garbage on the screen while you move the mouse is the correct device.

then you need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config

put the proper device in the mouse device section.

what protocol are you using for the mouse in XF86Config?

for usb mice it is normally IMPS/2

PS: all this info could have been found by using the search button. this type of mouse question gets asked more than once a day so there are already multiple threads with this stuff in them.

[GnomeProject]

You need to find a kernel module for RH 7.3 that enables USB support as USB support didn't become fully native until 9.0, although it works well in 8.0. However, I don't think the version number matters that much compared to the kernel version, but then again, the support from RH might not be there but that of the kernel might... Once more, I don't know if there is a native kernel module for 7.3. Good luck! Just my $0.02 worth.