The mouse's light is on.
When I run dmesg, I can see that the optical mouse has been detected.
I have usb HID compiled in the kernel.
I can't figure out why my mouse is not detected.
For reasons which are tedious to explain, I am having to use XFree86 and the 2.4 kernel. The distribution that is being used is arch linux 0.6.
Before puking out, Xfree gives me these error messages.
Code:
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/mouse
No such file or directory
(EE) Mouse1: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Mouse1"
no core pointer
Fatal server error:
Failed to initialize core devices
I've tried changing the mouse device around from /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice, but that doesn't work
indeed, when I look in the /dev directory, there is not a further mouse or input directory inside of it.
Any ideas?