hi, I cannot get the usb mouse to work on my laptop after upgrade to sarge with kernel 2.6.7 (i did work fine in woody with 2.4.25) i think i have all the necessary modules loaded: here is the output of lsmod | grep usb: usb_storage 68064 0 usbkbd 7424 0 usbmouse 5664 0 usbhid 32768 0 usbcore 114784 7 uhci_hcd,usb_storage,usbkbd,usbmouse,usbhid ide_core 142808 4 usb_storage,ide_disk,ide_generic,via82cxxx scsi_mod 125004 3 usb_storage,sd_mod,libata and here of dmesg | grep usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usbcore: registered new driver usbkbd drivers/usb/input/usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using address 2 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [062a:0001] on usb-0000:00:07.0-2 usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2 usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using address 3 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [062a:0001] on usb-0000:00:07.0-2 usb usb5: USB disconnect, address 1 usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 3 usb usb1: USB disconnect, address 1 usb usb2: USB disconnect, address 1 usb usb3: USB disconnect, address 1 usb usb4: USB disconnect, address 1 usb 1-2: new low speed USB device using address 2 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [062a:0001] on usb-0000:00:07.0-2 the mouse if obviously detected, but nothing happens if i move the mouse or on clicking, b.t.w. it is an optical one and the light is on! here the relevant section of XFConfig-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "SendCoreEvents" "true" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" # Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse" Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection (as you can see i tried already changing to /dev/usbmouse) thanks for the help!