Can't get my optical mouse to work

[rsboehner]

Can anyone help me out on this one? I just installed Caldera 3.1 Workstation on my home computer but I couldn't get my optical USB Logitech mouse to be recognized.

Any help would be appreciated!!

[ThePyr0x]

I've never dealt with Caldera but my assumption is that u have to set up USB support for it to see your mouse
I dont know how to do this, but im sure somebody reading this will

[pbharris]

okay - my mighty redhat box has the logitech USB optical mouse, this also works for debain. assumes kernel 2.4 What you need:

a link from /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice
try this in a terminal
ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse

then make sure all the needed modules are loaded, they are

mousedev
hid
input
usb-uhci
usbcore
usbmouse

you can load them by doing a modprobe <module_name>

then crank up X and say you mouse is at /dev/mouse - you can check out my xfree86 config file to see what to put in for the mouse if you need to.
http://members.telocity.com/cph013/XF86Config-4

[rsboehner]

I did the ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse command and it said somethign about it already being there. Then I did all the other steps you mentioned and edited the XFree86 file and it still wouldn't recognize the mouse. Said the path /dev/mouse was invalid. Any other possiblities?