[edit: Just changed the header... figure the title's scaring people off?]

Hello all.
According to my bootup, I have a 'Cypress Sem. PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse"_
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My mouse is USB. I'm beginning to think if it'd been PS2, there would've been
no problems. *sigh* Pardon if I've given too much info, I didn't want to give not enough.

I am running Slackware v9.1 Kernel 2.4.22

I read the 'Before You Post...' and upon running /sbin/lsusb, this is what it
returned:

Unknown line at line 1809
Duplicate HUT Usage Spec at line 2650
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05fe:0011 Chic Technology Corp. Browser Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Virtual Hub

I ran dmesg to capture the end of my bootup output:

hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5fe/0x11) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse
input0: Cypress Sem. PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse on usb2:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

Does anyone know how I can get my mouse up and running? Or must I
relegate myself to a different mouse? I did a bit of poking around,
apparently my mouse is 'mostly working' in linux, but not completely
supported.

Thank-you for any help you can provide!
~EA~

Seems I'd missed a post or two on here, and managed to solve the problem.

While it is wierd that upon startup, I still get the message that my USB device is not claimed by any active drivers, I ran 'mouseconfig' and it properly set up my mouse.

Now I get a cursor in the shell and GNOME when I move my mouse, so that's fixed. I'm having the problem that it only recognizes my mouse as a 3-button mouse (It's a wheel mouse),

[edit: apparently this mouse doesn't behave like a standard wheel mouse, and so the previous information I posted about getting it to behave properly was incorrect]

open /etc/X11/XF86Config, and find the Core Pointer section.

under

Section "InputDevice"

whatever "Protocol" is set to, make sure it says the following, even if your mouse is USB.

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"

add:

Option "Buttons 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

You're not done yet.

In your home directory, create a file called ".Xmodmap" you'll want to open it and type the following:

pointer = 1 2 3 6 7 4 5

The reason for this, is that for some extremely strange reason, unlike other normal mice, the wheel mouse should be 'buttons' 4 and 5, but on this mouse it's 6, and 7.

Hope this helps others in future.