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

[Jason Kraftcheck <kraftche@cae.wisc.edu>]

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