Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >>> >>> > The effect is quite bizarre & it was the gods who save

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Freitag, 14. September 2012, 07:21:17 schrieb Michael Mol: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > > > > > The effect is quite bizarre & it was the gods who saved me : > > > if I hadn't happened to plug the mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote >> >> > The effect is quite bizarre & it was the gods who saved me : >> > if I hadn't happened to plug the mouse into the ne

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > > > The effect is quite bizarre & it was the gods who saved me : > > if I hadn't happened to plug the mouse into the neighbouring port, > > I could have spent days struggling to fi

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:06:01PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote > The effect is quite bizarre & it was the gods who saved me : > if I hadn't happened to plug the mouse into the neighbouring port, > I could have spent days struggling to find out what was wrong > & even taken the mobo back to the store

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
120913 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> Yes, the 3.4.9 .config has nearly all of those. >> However, I'm not sure that your logic is the right way round (smile): >> something is telling Kernel + Udev to recognise only a 3.0 mouse, >> whereas Mageia/SR rec

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > Yes, the 3.4.9 .config has nearly all of those. > However, I'm not sure that your logic is the right way round (smile): > something is telling Kernel + Udev to recognise only a 3.0 mouse, > whereas Mageia/SR recognise a 2.0 mouse ; the mouse is

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
120913 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb wrote: >> When I had switched off & was replugging connections, >> I found that I'd plugged the mouse into a different USB slot : >> the previous one -- similar to the one in this machine -- was 2.0/1.1 , >> the new one which

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > No progress yesterday. Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config > & installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 : > I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works. > Then I started looking a Udev in this machine to see

Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

2012-09-13 Thread Philip Webb
No progress yesterday. Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config & installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 : I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works. Then I started looking a Udev in this machine to see what mb missing there. Back in the new machine, I was prepar