On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 01:03:41PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: | Hello all, | | I'm still having difficulty in setting up my USB mouse for woody. Since I | am currently kernel 2.4.bf2.4, my assumption is that the USB drivers are | already loaded.
Don't assume. Check. (do you know what "assume" spells?) First
$ cat /proc/devices
Do you see '180 usb' in there? If not then the driver isn't loaded.
Another check is
$ dmesg | grep -i usb
you should see messages there about a USB controller and devices.
I don't know if that kernel uses modules or not, but if it does you
need to have these modules loaded :
usb
mousedev
| When I setup X, I chose /dev/input/mice for the my mouse
| path. Is there anyone that can help me getting this correct?
| As always, all help is greatly appreciated.
What does
$ ls -l /dev/input/mice
report? Are you using a static /dev or devfs? (if you don't know
then it's the former; if "ls -l /dev/.devfsd" shows a file you're
using devfs)
What does /var/log/XFree86.0.log say about the mouse?
The last question is really the first step. You know that if the
mouse doesn't work in X, X will report a problem. You can start there
and work your way backwards until you reach the root cause of the
problem.
-D
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