Re: usb mouse not recognised in kernel 2.4.22 (continued)

[ben <debian-laptop@ausipos.com>]

things are getting messy here.

Thanks to everyone that has replied, I greatly appreciate your replies,
however the messages are getting confused.

I have reposted this to try and clear things up a little.

I do not have usb-ohci installed. I am running an Asus laptop with Intel
chipset and using usb-uhci

My lsmod shows:
zeus:/home/ben# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
orinoco_cs              4372   1
mousedev                3832   1
nls_cp437               4348   2  (autoclean)
usb-uhci               21804   0  (unused)
asus_acpi               7676   0
thermal                 6432   0  (unused)
processor               8780   0  [thermal]
fan                     1568   0  (unused)
button                  2508   0  (unused)
battery                 5856   0  (unused)
ac                      1792   0  (unused)
microcode               3424   0  (unused)
msr                     1640   0  (unused)
cpuid                   1224   0  (unused)
radeonfb               22636   0  (unused)
fbcon-cfb8              3336   0  [radeonfb]
fbcon-cfb24             4200   0  [radeonfb]
fbcon-cfb16             3912   0  [radeonfb]
fbcon-cfb32             3752   0  [radeonfb]
hid                    16836   0  (unused)
usbcore                58368   1  [usb-uhci hid]
i810_audio             24968   1
ac97_codec             12076   0  [i810_audio]
orinoco                33036   0  [orinoco_cs]
hermes                  5252   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]
busmouse                3260   0  (unused)
input                   3488   0  [mousedev]

As you can see only mousedev is using input what have I done wrong??!!


Jason Kraftcheck wrote:

> Shyamal Prasad wrote:
>
> >     "Bob" == Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> >
> >     Bob> ben wrote:
> >     >> if i enter modconf on my latest compile no usbmouse shows up,
> >     >> however if i lsmod it appears. I am still not sure if this is
> >     >> the problem as my kernel 2.4.18 (bf24) has this module loaded
> >     >> and the mouse works, but I am willing to try anything at this
> >     >> stage!
> >
> >     Bob> For USB mice and a modular kernel I have found experimentally
> >     Bob> that I need to load the following two drivers.
> >
> >     Bob>   echo hid >> /etc/modules     Bob>   echo mousedev >> 
> > /etc/modules
> >
> >     Bob>   modprobe hid modprobe mousedev
> >
> >     Bob> With these loaded everything works fine for me.
> >
> > There was a time I actually understood the USB subsystem (two years
> > ago or so). Now all I do is
> >
> > - use a stock Debian woody kernel (2.4.18-{k7|686}) in my case)
> > - apt-get install hotplug
> >
> > and it all works pretty much by itself. With my USB keyboard and mouse
> > I see
> >
> > $ /sbin/lsmod | grep usb
> > usbkbd                  2944   0 (unused)
> > usbmouse                1792   0 (unused)
> > input                   3424   0 [keybdev usbkbd mousedev hid usbmouse]
> > usb-uhci               21508   0 (unused)
> > usbcore                49696   1 [usbkbd hid usbmouse usb-uhci]
>
> You don't need usbkdb or usbmouse.  For USB mouse and keyboard support 
> you should have:
>   usbcore
>   usb-[ou]hci
>   input
>   hid
>   mousedev
>   keybdev