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Re: no USB mouse in Etch



On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 14:48:42 +0000, Tim Frink wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:20:12 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> 
> >> 
> >> Any ideas what might be wrong?
> > 
> > What is the output of
> > 
> > ls -l /dev/input/by-id/
>
> There is no such a device.

/dev/input/by-id/ should be a directory of symbolic links which tell you
which input hardware has which device node. Maybe your udev is not
working properly. What is the output of

dpkg -l udev hotplug linux-image-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'

> > Do you see output (codes) scrolling by if you run (as root)
> > 
> > cat /dev/input/mice | hd
> > 
> > and you move the mouse? (CTRL+C to exit)
> 
> No, when I move my USB mouse, there is no output. Moving my touchpad,
> I see some code.

If you have /dev/input/mouse0 or similar then you should also try that.

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