Microsoft Blue USB Mouse Not Working in 2.6.9

sovietpower · 11-06-2004, 04:29 PM

I have a Microsoft Blue USB Mouse. It worked when I installed slack using the 2.4.26 Kernel. It is detected during boot also with the old kernel. The 2.6.9 Kernel doesnt even detect it did I miss something when I recompiled?

carboncopy · 11-06-2004, 10:39 PM

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Originally posted by sovietpower
I have a Microsoft Blue USB Mouse. It worked when I installed slack using the 2.4.26 Kernel. It is detected during boot also with the old kernel. The 2.6.9 Kernel doesnt even detect it did I miss something when I recompiled?

Most likely

Try and try again. That is the way to familiarize with Linux Kernel.

WMD · 11-07-2004, 12:51 AM

2.6.9 broke some mice. Not even mentioning the other myriad of problems caused by 2.6.9, you should revert.

dhave · 11-07-2004, 10:50 AM

I've got kernel 2.6.9 working fine with a Microsoft USB cordless optical mouse (which is blue and silver, FWIW). When I configured the kernel I put most all USB options in the kernel rather than compiling them as modules. The kernel recognizes the mouse with no trouble.

I haven't had insurmountable problems with 2.6.9, and it's just as stable as other 2.6.x kernels on my system (Thinkpad T21).

As carboncopy suggested, if at first you don't succeed, etc. ...

sovietpower · 11-07-2004, 08:32 PM

I went back to the 2.6.7 kernel and it was detected fine but when I copied the .config from 2.6.7 to 2.6.9 it didnt work might just be 2.6.9