RE: [debian-user] Wireless Optical Mouse (MS brand-ish)
Ilkka Poutanen wrote:
>
> 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.
Doh! I used the tried & true Linux strategy of ignoring all documentation
except Google to find my solution. The solution worked, but now I know
_why_. Apparently, the MS "Blue" optical mouse doesn't work with usbmouse -
which is what hotplug installed instead of hid. Tobias must have had
exactly the opposite problem.
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