Hello Dave, I can try to help with the mouse. My computer has a VIA chipset. It's an 800 Mhz PIII like the one you mention on the web page. It has Asus P3V4X motherboard and I have a USB Microsoft Optical Intellimouse. There are 5 modules you need to have made in the in the kernel and then load before the USB mouse will work. And the 'usbmouse' device in the /dev/directory has to be the correct 'major' and 'minor' character numbers. The modules need to be loaded in the correct order I believe. I put them in my /etc/modules file in this order...
usbcore usb-uhci input hid mousedev You can 'modprobe' them to get them loaded if you like, but you may want to wait until you've properly made the 'usbmouse' file in /dev before loading them and 'killall gpm'(in case it's going). I recall that I always have to remove the 'usbmouse' in /dev and make a new one. I could be mistaken, but I think it's not usually set to the right major and minor numbers that work for me. So, I do the following commands... rm -fv usbmouse mknod usbmouse c 13 32 Now you should modprobe all the above modules in the order listed. Now you should be able to test that it's working. To try it out, do 'cat usbmouse' and you should get a bunch of strange characters that spit out on the command line when you move the mouse around. Ctrl-C to get out of it. Finally, you can do 'gpmconfig' and set up the mouse as normal(say 'none' to the last question which for a value for the 'Repeat' option) and that will get gpm fired up and it should be working! I could tell you're pretty frustrated from the website and I hope this helps with the mouse anyway. Good Luck to You, Jimmy Richards P.S. Let me know if you get it working! :-) On 10 Mar 2001 06:42:58 +1100, David Wiener wrote: > I have the following problem with USB: > http://www.dual-enforcers.net/www/984916629 > > Can anyone help me get USB working under linux? > > Dave W > To the optimist, the glass is half full > To the pessimist, the glass is half empty > To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
