I've just installed Woody.
I've got a USB keyboard and USB mouse, and am running a stock 2.4.18-686
kernel. The only modules I'm loading from /etc/modules are:
unix
af_packet
8139too
The keyboard is recognized both in the BIOS (where's there no options
anything like "Legacy Keyboard support for USB" or anything like that")
and in Woody. Everything's fine with the keyboard.
The USB mouse however doesn't work. X won't start (it complains about
"No core pointer" - mouse is on /dev/input/mice), and gpm doesn't seem
to work with it (also pointing to /dev/input/mice).
So I figured maybe it's a module issue, so I cd'd to /lib/modules/2.4.18
-686/kernel/drivers/usb and looked for any interesting modules. Then I
did a:
modprobe usb-uhci
(because lspci reported my usb bus to be of the uhci type).
Quite a bit of stuff scrolled by, registering new driver usbdevs and new
driver hub and detecting two ports and then two new usb device connects
assigned device numbers 2 and 3 respectively.
The lights on the USB keyboard do a bit of dancing, and then the
keyboard goes completely dead. If I remove the two modules that actually
get installed (usb-uhci and usbcore), the keyboard's lights all go solid
and stay there, but the keyboard remains dead. I can then modprobe
usb-uhci again, and the lights go off, but the keyboard remains dead.
The mouse also never becomes usable, even after restarting gpm and/or
rerunning gpmconfig. /proc/bus/usb is empty.
Then I tried "modprobe usbmouse". That generates some more info, such as
registering new driver usb-mouse and input0: KYE Genius USB Wheelmouse
on usb1:2.0 and a Cypress USB Keyboard/PS/2 mouse on usb1:3.1 and etc.
(I'd include the output of these commands, but I can't seem to capture
the text.)
Still, /proc/bus/usb is empty.
Doing a "modprobe usbkbd" provides similar results.
Anyone have any clues as to what I'm missing or need to do?
Thanks!
Kent