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Problems with USB mouse in Gentoo

I installed Gentoo a while ago on my laptop (nx9105), and I have just one unresolved problem left.

I can't get my USB mouse to work properly. It lights up when I start Gentoo but I can't get it to work in X (or console for that matter). I had the same problem om my stationary computer, but it worked with a PS/2 mouse on it. Since I don't have any PS/2 ports on the laptop I have to get this resolved. The USB controller gets recognized properly. I heard that it might be because the mouse doesn't support USB 2.0, but since I don't have any products using 2.0 I can't see if that's true. Using "cat /dev/input/mice" does not do anything. No matter how much I move the mouse the command just hangs there until I cancel it.

I _REALLY_ need help here. I have tried to find a sollution to this problem for several days now, but noone seems to know.

Please!? I can't be the only one having this problem!

that's right, i have the same problem......

post lsmod and your xorg.conf like this one,most likely don't have support enabled in the kernel;

Code:

Section "ServerLayout"

        Identifier    "XFree86 Configured"

        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0

        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

        InputDevice    "Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents"

EndSection

# touchpad

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier  "Mouse0"

        Driver      "mouse"

        Option      "Protocol" "PS/2"

        Option      "Device" "/dev/mouse"

        Option      "Emulate3Buttons"

        Option      "Emulate3Timeout" "50"

EndSection

# usb optical logitech mouseman with wheel

Section "InputDevice"

        Identifier      "Mouse1"

        Driver          "mouse"

        Option          "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

        Option          "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

        Option          "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

See if this helps; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...t=mouse+laptop
or http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.p...asc&highlight=
and look for your laptop here;
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/
and here for the kernel .config
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Gentoo_Acer_T...nual#USB-Mouse