Tricky mouse problem

[joel]

Late last night, with lots of help from the link below, I got the mouse 
problem figured out. Thank you very much! 

If anyone is curious, I had trouble with the mouse because of two things: 
first, the usb filesystem wasn't loaded automatically, so I had to do that 
manually; second, the modules input, hid, and mousedev had to be loaded. 
Guess that's one disadvantage of going with an extremely paranoid security 
setting...

--Joel 

On Thursday 23 August 2001 08:54 pm, Jon wrote:
> I got this information and relayed it pretty close to how it is written.
> You can find it here:
>
> www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html
>
> Credit goes to this guy and his excellent mini-howto.
>
> Jon
>
> On Thursday 23 August 2001 10:51 pm, you wrote:
> > 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
>
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