Re: Changing from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse?

[Jules <jpetroff@bigpond.net.au>]

Yeah, the above post sounded right.  This worked for me:

USB Human Interface Device (HID) Configuration :
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html

Plug in a USB mouse and check that your mouse has been correctly sensed 
by the kernel. If you don't have a kernel message, look for the changes 
to /proc/bus/usb/devices.

mkdir /dev/input
mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63

If you cat /dev/input/mice you should see some bizarre looking 
characters as you move the mouse or click any of the buttons.

You need to edit the XF86Config-4 file (usually /etc/X11/XF86Config-4).
If you are using XFree86 version 4.0 or later, add a InputDevice section 
that looks like the following: 

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "USB Mice"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol"   "IMPS/2"
    Option      "Device"     "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection 

or, if you want to use a wheel mouse, something like: 

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "USB Mice"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Protocol"   "IMPS/2"
    Option      "Device"     "/dev/input/mice"
    Option      "ZAxisMapping"   "4 5"
    Option      "Buttons"        "5"
EndSection 

InputDevice "USB Mice" "CorePointer" 



If you want to use both a USB mouse (or USB mice) and some other kind of 
pointer device, then add (do not replace) the following line to the 
applicable 
ServerLayout sections: 
InputDevice "USB Mice" "SendCoreEvents"

Restart the X server. If you don't have any mouse support at this point, 
remember that Ctrl-Alt-F1 will get you a virtual terminal that you can 
use to kill the xserver and start debugging from the error messages.

If you want to use the mouse under gpm, run (or kill and restart if it 
is already running) gpm with the following options. 

gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2

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Jules Petroff
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