Re: usb mouse

[Shawn Lamson <shawn.lamson@verizon.net>]

On Tue, November 25 at 11:10 PM EST
Simon Tod <todsr1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>I'm having no luck in getting a USB Mouse to work...
>
>/etc/fstab reports:
>
>none  /proc/bus/usb  usbfs  defaults  0  0
>
>On boot up into a Knoppix 2.4.20-xfs kernel I always
>get...
>
>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
>usb.c: registered new driver hub
>usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:50:40 Nov 15
>2003
>usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
>usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 9
>usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
>usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
>hub.c: USB hub found
>hub.c: 2 ports detected
>usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller
>Interface driver
>
>with the mouse plugged in when I boot, I additionally
>get...
>
>usb.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
>usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x39) is not
>claimed by any active driver
>usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
>usb.c: registered new driver hid
>usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame # 231
>input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [ Microsoft Microsoft
>5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb1:2.0
>hid-core.c: v1.81.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik
><vojtech@suse.cz>
>hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
>
>lsmod reports the additional modules keybdev, hid,
>mousedev and input in addition to usbcore and usb-uhci
>that are always there.
>
>As far as I can tell the mouse is recognised (albeit a
>Microsoft mouse borrowed from work...!?), so what more
>do I need to do to get it working?
>
>Using my 2.4.22 kernel I get a complaint of failed
>attempt to load keybdev, but then, I disabled that in
>my kernel compilation. Why do I need keybdev for a
>mouse anyway?!
>
>Thanks...
>
I was able to get mine working with the steps here:
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html

under HID mouse configuration.

HTH, Shawn

>=====
>-----------------------
>Simon Tod
>todsr1@yahoo.co.uk


Shawn Lamson
shawn.lamson@verizon.net