Re: USb-mouse (logitech trackman)

[John Spray <jcs116@york.ac.uk>]

Roelof Wobben wrote:
> Yesterday I installed Debian Woody.
> Everything works great only my mouse doesn'work.
> I have a Logitach Trackman.

Two levels on which the problem could lie: either with the kernel 
driver, or with the X driver.

To begin with, see if the mouse is working at a kernel level: do a "cat 
/dev/input/mice" as root.  You should see nasty spewing output when you 
move the mouse.

If this works okay, the next step is to configure XFree86 by editing the 
file /etc/X11/XF86Config using a text editor of your choice.  I use a 
logitech mouse, and have an "InputDevice" section containing:

#-----------------------Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "Buttons" "6"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "SampleRate" "100"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"
        Option      "Buttons" "6"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "SampleRate" "100"
EndSection
#-----------------------

Yours will probably require some tweaking.

If the initial test failed, you will need to load some kernel modules 
for your mouse to work.  In this case, please supply the output of the 
"lsmod" command (again, as root).

Regards,
John Spray
(jcs116 at york.ac.uk)