On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:18:29PM +0200, Matthias Ospelkaus wrote: > Hi, > After some problems installing debian, I finally got X running. But my > usb-mouse does not run. > This is what I have done: > 1. Install usbmanager > 2. Install new kernel(took the newest precompiled version with dselect) > 3. configure lilo(initrd) > 4. created the device /dev/input/mice with mknod. Here is the output of ls > -l /dev/input/mice: > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 63 Apr 7 19:51 /dev/input/mice > Should be ok. > But when I type cat /proc/bus/usb/devices nothing is returned. /proc/bus/usb/ will be empty until you mount usbdevfs. /etc/fstab should have line in it reading: none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 then mount /proc/bus/usb Also, check /var/log/messages or /var/log/dmesg to see if your usb is registering. You should look for lines something like: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > And cat /dev/input/mice does not show strange signs when I move the mouse as > stated in a linux-usb-howto. > So the device should be the problem - not X. > According to lsmod mousedev, hid, usbcore and input are loaded - where is > the problem? If USB is registering, problem could be X configuration. What does section of XF86Config or XF86Config-4 for mouse look like? > My mouse is a primax which used to work fine on suse, my mainboard an assus > P2B. > Thanks for helping, X without mouse is not that nice, Matthais -- Jerome
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