Re: USB Mouse Logitech Trackman
Thanks a lot for the reply. I will try that out as soon as I can. I had
not found anything regarding that option either.
Casey
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Richard van den Berg wrote:
> Casey Scott wrote:
> > I can not get my Logitech Trackman USB mouse to work at all! The
> > kernel (2.4.20) does detect it during boot, and the usbdevfs is mounted.
> > However, when I cat or tail -f /dev/input/mice, and move the mouse,
> > nothing changes. The mouse obviously doesn't work in X.
> [snip]
> > hub.c: port 2, portstatus 301, change 2, 1.5 Mb/s
> > hub.c: port 2, portstatus 303, change 0, 1.5 Mb/s
> > hub.c: new USB device 00:11.3-2, assigned address 2
> > usb.c: kmalloc IF cfded1c0, numif 1
> > usb.c: skipped 1 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
> > usb.c: USB device number 2 default language ID 0x409
> > Manufacturer: Logitech
> > Product: Trackball
> > : USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Trackball] on usb2:2.0
>
> I just had the exact same problem. I upgraded from 2.4.18 to 2.4.20. It
> took me a few hours to realize that the last line should have read:
>
> input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Trackball] on usb2:2.0
>
> I took a hard look at my .config file, and there is a new option you
> need to enable:
>
> CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
>
> After some digging I found this was introduced in 2.4.19. I did not find
> documention suggesting to enable this when upgrading though. "make
> oldconfig" has this set to N by default. *sigh*
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Richard van den Berg
>
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