USB Mouse Not Working
I installed Debian Testing about 3 weeks ago on a Dell Inspiron 2650 laptop and everything was working fine. I did a netinst with LXDE desktop and even plugging in my Dell 2 button wheel mouse worked. It has the 2.6.26 kernel.
Today I did a safe-upgrade and now the mouse is not working at all. The touchpad continues to work. I normally boot with the mouse plugged in. When I run dmesg | tail, I see 'New USB device found' after unplugging & re plugging the mouse in the port. Any ideas how to get this to work? My /etc/X11/xorg.conf is empty but everything else is working as normal. I just plugged in a usb thumbdrive and it is detected and automounted. Thnx. |
You could try to create a xorg.conf
take a look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...g-file-743438/ for a guide It's a bug in the new xorg |
I did add a xorg.conf file and adjusted the mouse section but still not working. I guess I'll have to wait on a fix but I sure hate using the touchpad instead of a mouse.
Thnx. |
You could try to disable synaptic section in xorg.conf
and add the conf for usb Code:
Section "InputDevice" |
I've tried what you mention, repo, but still no mouse. I've also tried with /dev/input/mouse and no go. I'm not sure what the problem is. It just seems odd the mouse would stop working, even though it listed as a known device using lsusb.
Thanks, I appreciate the help. |
I have the same issue; however, this happens to me on my desktop, so I have to reboot to use my mouse again :( I'm trying to reinstall with a different method to see if that helps me... Good luck, I hope there's an answer to fix it completely, soon. I'm not sure if reinstalling will even fix it :(
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Rebooting is not fixing this issue with the laptop, I'm not sure what the problem could be. I guess some type of bug somewhere came up. It is these types of small issues that distros should not be having. Maybe a fix will come with the next update of X or the kernel.
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Same problem using Fedora 11
It looks like I am experiencing the same problem (using Fedora 11 on a Dell Dimension 5100 Desktop). All was working wel until I installed updates using yum (I do this once a week and had been working without problems so far). I can see the mouse pointer in the center of my display, but no matter what I do it won't move. I booted Fedora Live and all was working again so I guess it is not a hardware problem. If someone has a solution for this problem I would appreciate it if they would post it. As this problem seems to occur on both Debian and Fedora it is probably generic and not distro related.
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Found cause and solution
Hello again. After some research I found out the problem is caused by bluez (Bluetooth stuff). I replaced the bluez packages that were updated by the original ones and now everything works again (although I had to reboot my system first). I do not have a Debian system here, but chances are your problems are also caused by updating bluez.
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BetelgeuseFive, I'll look into it. I did a netinst with Debian, meaning a minimum installation, I don't think any bluez stuff is installed. I will check to be certain, thanks for the info.
But Wednesday I installed Pardus Linux and after installation and first reboot to login, the usb mouse is not working. It uses KDE and may have the bluez. Thnx. |
USB Mouse Not Working
I have a similar problem. Debian Lenny, kernel 2.6.17. Here is my sources.list:
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free # deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main I did apt-get update; apt-get upgrade and this seemed ok but the X server failed with this error: (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or directory. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" No core pointer I gather from an LQ post that the DRI error will not stop X working so the mouse error is the important thing. I tried mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63 and tried startx and the error changed to (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device. (EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device (EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse" No core pointer so I was not much further forward. Like Fred, lsusb knows the mouse is there. And like Fred I am a bit annoyed; all I did was an upgrade. This desktop has a second disk so I just cleared the rubbish out of that and installed Debian Stable on it from an ISO CD. So I have a working system again, with a mouse obviously, and after a few hours work I shall have all the applications back but I'd still like to know what was wrong. I still have the original system on the first disk so I can do some diagnostic tests if you can suggest any. |
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