[TriLUG] help with usb mouse

[Donald Ball]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Mike McLean wrote:

> Are you sure usb is working?  Have you used other usb devices on this
> machine before?

no, but i'm pretty sure it's working. i can cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and
i see the mouse and it's labelled correctly:

S:   Manufacturer=Microsoft
S:   Product=Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer(R) 1.0A

dmesg tells me:

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x59) is not claimed by any active driver
usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1788
input0: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer(R) 1.0A on usb1:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

and obviously there is some sort of signal being receieved by the computer
from the mouse as moving the mouse does move the pointer, at least when i
use the IMPS/2 protocol (or some other random protocols i've found
mentioned in peoples' XF86Config's that aren't documented in the mouse
notes for XFree86-4.1.0 - great) - it just doesn't move the pointer in the
way that i expect.

just for completeness sake, /dev/mouse seems to be as it should be:

/dev/mouse -> /dev/usbmouse -> /dev/input/mouse0

i've tried using /dev/usbmouse, /dev/input/mouse0, and /dev/input/mice in
my XF86Config file, same basic results.

- donald