[TriLUG] help with usb mouse

[Daniel T. Chen]

Hrm, dunno if this will help, but...

% ls -l /dev/input/mice
crw-rw----    1 root     root      13,  63 Dec 31  1969 /dev/input/mice

...and in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ...

Option "Protocol"    "IMPS/2"
Option "SampleRate"  "150"
Option "Device"      "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping""4 5"

...and in my kernel .config ...
CONFIG_INPUT=y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=y
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=y
CONFIG_USB_HID=y


I followed the directions on linux-usb.org pretty much to the letter (I'm
using devfs 1.5 though it shouldn't make any difference since I had it
working as well prior to my move to devfs). It is completely possible that
the "IMPS/2" protocol won't work with your new model...

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Dan Chen                 crimsun at email.unc.edu
GPG key: www.cs.unc.edu/~chenda/pubkey.gpg.asc

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Donald Ball wrote:

> hey guys. i just got my gf a nice new USB Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse
> Explorer. yeah, whatever, they make great mice generally. anyway, i can't
> get it working in X under linux, wonder if y'all can give me a hand? i'm
> using XFree86-4.1.0 under Mandrake-8.1 with the evil nvidia drivers. when
> i start X using after running mousedrake, i get weirdness; the mouse
> pointer will only move up and down and the keys don't work reliably. i
> checked and in my X conf file, the protocol is set to IMPS/2. that seems
> wrong. i referred to this document:
> 
> http://xfree86.org/4.1.0/mouse6.html
> 
> which seemed like a good resource to me. it says:
> 
> To use this mouse as the USB device and the OS supports the generic HID
> protocol:
> 
> Option	"Protocol"	"usb"
> 
> To use this mouse as the USB device and the OS supports automatic mouse
> detection:
> 
> Option	"Protocol"	"Auto"
> 
> i tried both of these options to no avail. i believe the "Auto" protocol
> gave me no mouse movement at all, while the "usb" protocol gave me an X
> error saying that the usb protocol was unrecognized. interesting enough,
> mousedrake didn't even edit the correct XF86Config file, but i reckon
> that's mandrake's problem. anyway, anyone got any clues for me?
> 
> - donald