USB Mice

[jbstew32]

I just compiled a new kernel with USB support and UDMA66 Support. It's all gravy, except for the USB. I have USB mouse support and everything, and all of the USB drivers are modprobed at boottime. The question is, how to I start using it. I'm on Slackware 7.1, and I have never had a USB mouse before. XF86Setup just freezes my entire system when I run it. I can't even sys the Sys Rq sequence to get rid of it! Agh!

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[PLBlaze]

Hehe http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif, sorry but could not help...Welcome to wonderful world of 2.4.0 kernel and USB.

I have the same exact problem and think of writing the usb developer...if modules are loaded at startup it will freeze/lockup my system http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif but if i load them by hand it will be fine.Just to let you know that you're not alone...

Oh, and 2.2.17 with usb-backport works just fine with same setup.

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[jbstew32]

that really sucks. The patch is supposed to bring the 2.2 USB up to par with the 2.4 test's USB. It is an optical mouse, and I can see the laser light turn when I load the modules, and it just makes me mad that it still doesn't work the way it should! It the stable 2.4.0 going to have good support for this?

[jbstew32]

YES! I finally got linux to see my mouse! I can cat /proc/usb/devices and see it!!! The only problem is I can't use it. I have it all set up, but the mouse doesn't move! Is it because it is an optical mouse?

[Ig0r]

You need to do the following:
mkdir /dev/input
mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63

This creates your USB mouse device.
Point all of your mouse-needing apps at this device (X, games, etc.)

PS. The problems you've been having are when you try to read from the PS/2 port without it having been initialized by the bios (no mouse detected at POST).
That'll always make you hard-reboot.

[This message has been edited by Ig0r (edited 03 December 2000).]

[jbstew32]

i did do all of that mknod stuff, and even then, it still doesn't work. My last post was after having done the things you specified.

[Sweede]

im using mandrake 7.2 with usb mouse (optical stuff).

do you have /dev/usbmouse ?
if so, symlink it to /dev/mouse
cd /dev
ln -s usbmouse mouse (or the other way around, not sure. you get file exists, then switch it)

[jbstew32]

i tried all of that and it didn't work. I finally just broke down and download 2.4test11 and now it works perfectly. Whatever it was, its over, and I can't wait until 2.4 is released because it is really great.

Thanks for you help http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif