Hello,
I have now one problem with my mouse in X. I have got a touchpad mouse(Toshiba satelite notebook) and one Genius USB optical mouse. When I run kxconfig and select PS/2 I can move with my touchpad mouse, use right clik,but I cannot use my left click. When I select USB in kxconfig and restart X,I am not able to start X again ,it gives me XF86Config error -->
(EE) Mouse0: Unknown protocol "USB"
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse0"
No core pointer
Fatal server error:failed to initialize core devices

What should I do with this problem? I am using debian distribution.

Thanks

My USB optical mouse refused to work also. Then I plugged an USB2PS2 plug onto the USB plug (still with me?) and plugged that one into the PS2 socket. This way the mouse kind of works, but it's like it keeps jumping to the upper right part of the screen and emulates the [Enter] key at random intervals when I move the mouse.

I guess this wasn't really helpful but just to let you know that there are USB2PS2 plugs out there, and in WinXP it works fine for me.

I still haven't solved my own mouse problems tho.

In RH9 that you are using I didn't have any problems with my mouse(but I had others) but now when I changed to Debian it's really tough.

Do you have usb support built in to the kernel or loaded as modules? You probably need to have USB HID support?

How can I do that?

You'll will need to recompile the kernel. Which isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.
This site seems to give the basics on what you need:
http://oncode.info/include/texts.php...gitechusbmouse

First make sure you know your hardware, so you can build a proper kernel for the system, then google for building the kernel the debian way.

Ok I will try,I also found something(usbmgr+oter things) on debian site,I am going to test it.

I tried downloading usbmgr and usbview,but that didn't work.In usbview I even cannot see my mouse connected,so probably I will have to recompile my kernel, but I am very afraid of it:-)

I know this isn't 'my' topic, but while I'm having similar problems I figured I could ask a related question:

When booting, Grub asks me for linux-smp or linux-up. Are those different kernels? Would that mean I have to recompile the kernel twice?

SMP is for if you have more than one processor. If you don't then you don't need that kernel.

Recompiling the kernel is not bad at all. It took me quite a while after I started using Linux to recompile the kernel, but once you've done it...it's not a big deal at all. You just use a menu driven interface (ncurses based) and pick what stuff you need. The you compile it. Not to tough at all.

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO/

Q: So it is a different kernel?
SMP runs fine even though I have only 1 processor.
Q: Doesn't linux think my Pentium4 with "Multi-threading Technology" is a dual processor, and only supports it with the SMP kernel?
In previous install, grub also showed a "linux-bigmem" option.
Q: What's that and why is it away now I installed RH9 again?

Ok,back to my mouse again. I don't have to recompile the kernel,because I managed it to have USB support without it(I added the usbcore to file /etc/modules) and now I can see every connected USB device. Also my touchpad is working OK. But when I move with my optical mouse,right means down(on screen),left means up and it don't react(almost) when I move the mouse up or down. What should I do now?
btw I will compile the Kernel for learning it,but the newest version(I have go the 2.4.20-xfs now;btw don't you know which kernel headers should I download???).

I usually just get the full kernel source from kernel.org. Extract it under /usr/src

uhhh for the people who have USB mouses such as PS/2 do this trick that i learned my own.


while booting keep moving you mouse around until login time and see if it works.


just while booting do like figure 8s or whatever with the mouse... tell me if that works