On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 09:02, Stick Dragon wrote: > Have a usb mouse, microsoft intellimouse optical, and can't seen to get it > to work. I selected it through the install processes, but that didnt work. I > dont even get the optical part to light up. Is there a way to get this to > work. > > PS, if there are things i need to do in the console please let me know how > to bring it up with out a mouse. little new to linux and trying to make the > switch from windows to linux >
sounds like the usb stuff is not working. here is some of the stuff from /var/log/messages at boot when I have my MS optical wheel mouse connected to my laptop running 7.2 Look in there and see if there is any errors mentioned. Nov 22 10:49:55 bretsony kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 2 Nov 22 10:49:02 bretsony rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded Nov 22 10:49:55 bretsony kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x1e) is not claimed by any active driver. Nov 22 10:49:02 bretsony rc.sysinit: Setting hostname bretsony: succeeded Nov 22 10:49:55 bretsony kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 3 Nov 22 10:49:02 bretsony rc.sysinit: Mounting USB filesystem: succeeded Nov 22 10:49:55 bretsony kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vendMvnetd/prod 0x4e6/0xa) is not claimed by any active driver. Nov 22 10:49:02 bretsony rc.sysinit: Initializing USB controller (usb-uhci): succeeded Nov 22 10:49:55 bretsony kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid Nov 22 10:49:02 bretsony rc.sysinit: Initializing USB HID interface: succeeded Nov 22 10:49:55 bretsony kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1285 might as well check to see if the usb modules are loaded too. [bhughes@bretsony bhughes]$ lsmod|grep usb usb-uhci 21760 0 (unused) usbcore 51936 1 [usb-uhci] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
