On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:39:58PM +0200, Tobias Wolter wrote:
> On 2004-04-28T13:27:57-0300 (Wednesday), Broughton, Derek wrote:
> > Do you load "hid" in /etc/modules? I have just the USB Wireless=20
> > mouse and have to do that. I have no idea _why_ it's necessary,=20
> > If I leave it out, hotplug successfully inserts all the correct=20
> > modules, but only unplugging the mouse and removing the modules
> > ('rmmod mousedev usbmouse hiddev hid', iirc) and reinserting hid
> > first, then plugging in the mouse, seemed to fix it.
>
> Yes, hid got loaded first off, and, astonishingly:
> | input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop=
> =AE 1.00] on usb2:3.1
>
> Hath been found in the dmesg report. But when when I kick in all the
> other modules, ergo mousedev and usbmouse, it just won't work. As if
> the kernel won't bother to route the mouse to /dev/input/mice.
You're supposed to use *either* usbmouse/usbkbd (the HIDBP drivers) *or*
the full hid driver, not both. See help for kernel config option
CONFIG_USB_HID and Documentation/input/input.txt in the kernel source.
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