Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Ben wrote: These are the relevant modules (wrt. the usb mouse) lsmod shows on my laptop (acer tm 634), kernel 2.4.19: mousedev 3736 0 (unused) hid 17892 0 (unused) usbmouse 1784 0 (unused) input 3296 0 [mousedev hid usbmouse] usb-ohci 17672 0 (unused)usb-ohci - USB support for Compaq, iMac, SiS, ALi, etc. chipsetsusbcore 54592 1 [hid usbmouse usb-ohci] # lspci00:0b.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)00:0f.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 00:14.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) And these on desktop, kernel 2.4.18: mousedev 4308 1 hid 19428 0 (unused) input 3648 0 [mousedev hid] usb-uhci 23664 0 (unused)usb-uhci - USB support for Intel, VIA, etc. chipsetsusbcore 62924 1 [hid usb-uhci] # lspci 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)You want usb-uhci, not usb-ohci.
the post that this post is replying to is a little misleading, I have an asus, usb-uhci loaded, christian has an acer usb-ohci loaded.
hmmm.... could be getting closer here!having looked at the outputs of everyones lsmods I have noticed that mine looks a bit odd!
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! everyone elses input is being used by at least mousedev & hid/usbmouse.i presume that this is the reason why my usbmouse is not activated, now how do I go about fixing this?
thanks for all the replies!