Tricky mouse problem

[Jon Reynolds]

Joel, I had to setup my USB roll ball mouse on slackware but I can help you 
out with what I did. so here goes:

1. kernel needs to have usb support and do not turn on HIDBP Mouse Support.

2.youll need to make a directory called input in dev "mkdir /dev/input" (if 
not already a directory)

3. you have to make a node in /dev/input/     "mknod /dev/input/mice 13 63"

If you cat /dev/input/mice you should see some things happening on your 
screen.

4. edit the XF86Config file you probably have XFree86 4.0 with mandrake 8 so 
you will need to add an InputDevice section that looks like so:

Section	"InputDevice"
	Identifier	"USB Mice"
	Driver	"mouse"
	Option	"Protocol"	"IMPS/2"
	Option	"Device"	"/dev/input/mice"
	Option	"ZAxisMapping"	"4 5"
	Option	"Buttons"	"5"
EndSection

Finally you need to add an entry to each applicable ServerLayout Section.
replace the line with the "CorePointer" entry with the following

InputDevice	"USB Mice" "SendCoreEvents"

and that should work?

Jon


On Thursday 23 August 2001 10:02 pm, you wrote:
> Uh, oh...
>
> I installed Mandrake 8.0 on my wonderful new machine. I think I must have
> made an error somewhere, though, because my Logitech USB scroll mouse isn't
> working in X. :-(
>
> It worked perfectly during the installation process, but not at all since
> then. I figured it may be a problem with the permissions (I selected the
> most secure configuration of Mandrake), so I tried connecting as root.
> Still no luck.
>
> The X message log says this:
>
> (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/usbmouse
> No such device.
> (WW) Mouse1: cannot open input device
>
> /dev/usbmouse does exist, but it's just a symlink to input/mouse0
> /dev/input/mouse0 also exists, and looks like this:
>
>  crw-rw----      1    root    sys   13, 32 Apr 14 01:06 /dev/input/mouse0
>
>  Any ideas?
>
> --Joel
>
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