wheres a USB mouse?

e1000 · 03-30-2004, 12:19 AM

I have a USB mouse pluged into a USB-to-PS2 adapter right now, but the adapters loose and i want to take it out of the equasion.

right now gpm and X11 both point toward /dev/mouse as the mouse device, but when I plug it into the USB it will surely change, and since im in slackware it wont autoconfigure and re-link /dev/mouse.

so my question is; what is the /dev/ addres for a USB mouse?

Punboy · 03-30-2004, 04:55 AM

/dev/usbmouse

original, huh?

hw-tph · 03-30-2004, 05:02 AM

Or, if you use HID and mousedev, it will most likely show up at /dev/input/mice. Plug in the mouse and type dmesg - the last few lines should indicate the kernel has found a USB mouse and attached a driver for it. If not, make sure hid, mousedev and the driver module for your USB host are loaded. Then simply type cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse around for a bit - you should see weird characters if the mouse is correctly plugged in. Hit Ctrl+C to quit. You can - of course - cat /dev/usbmouse as well.

Håkan