Help with USB mouse

cetol · 04-28-2008, 04:03 PM

Using Ubuntu 8.04 it won't initialize a usb mouse on my laptop. The synaptics touchpad works fine but I would really like to use a mouse every now and then.

Here is the output of lsusb:

Code:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

and the relevant part of dmesg:

Code:

[    9.168000] usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -110
[    9.168000] usb 2-2: configuration #0 chosen from 1 choice
[    9.168000] usb 2-2: config 0 descriptor??
[   14.168000] usb 2-2: can't set config #0, error -110
[   28.684000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5

and the output of lspci:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller
00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller
00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

Any and all help is appreciated

mike10 · 04-28-2008, 04:14 PM

dose the mouse work on another computer?
running Gnu/Linux?
dose the usb work otherwise

cetol · 04-28-2008, 04:20 PM

the mouse works fine with windows, but not linux.

usb hotplug seems to work fine when I use a flash drive.

mike10 · 04-29-2008, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cetol

the mouse works fine with windows, but not linux.

usb hotplug seems to work fine when I use a flash drive.

if you plug the mouse in before you boot into Linux dose the mouse work?

could you tell me the make and modal of the mouse

mike10 · 05-02-2008, 01:20 AM

did you fix the problem? (if so what did you do to fix it?)

cetol · 05-02-2008, 08:58 AM

No the mouse does not work. It is just a generic usb optical mouse with a scroll wheel that I bought about 4 years ago when I purchased the laptop. The light on the bottom is on so it is not a power issue.

mike10 · 05-02-2008, 09:54 PM

if you open a terminal and type

Code:

cat /dev/input/mice

and move your usb mouse around do you get any output?
hit

Code:

ctrl+c

than if you have a garbled terminal type

Code:

reset

the fact that it shows up in lsusb seams to indicat that the mouse just neads to be configured

has xorg bean configerd for usb mouse?

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