Hallo!

I recently decided rh wasn't my thing and, having been a fan of debian for a good amount of time (but never taken the step), I decided to tackle sarge.

Things with 2.4.x worked nicely. However, I wanted to up to 2.6.3.

So I dl'd the 2.6.3-kernel, compiled it about a dozen times with various options, and eventually got everything running, except the mouse.

It's a USB mouse, logitech trackman marble. gpm isn't working, nor is X working.

It's working fine in RH and on 2.4.24.

*peeks* Any.. tips?

-Kalle.

You probably have to enable the correct modules. The ones I have enabled are: mousedev, psmouse(?), usbcore, ohci_hcd, ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd, usbmouse, hid, and usbkbd. Some are probably unnecessary but it works.

I have practically all the USB crap enabled. Including the stuff you mentioned above (in fact, I went through and enabled -every- USB thing in the list there and it still didn't fly. *hums*)

Thanks, though.

Check your kernel log to see if your mouse is detected.
It would look like "input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse[model of the mouse] on usb-xxxx"
Then, dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, set mouse to /dev/input/mice

I had the same problem, though I'm using debian sid. USB mouse (and keyboard) worked fine under 2.4 kernels, but wouldn't work under 2.6, both debian stock kernels and ones that I compiled myself.

I may be misunderstanding what you say, but the problem is not just what modules you enabled in the kernel configuration, but what modules actually get loaded by the kernel.

What fixed the problem for me was loading the ehci_hcd, ohci_hcd, and uhci_hcd modules via the modprobe command. (I already had the usbmouse module loaded, use lsmod to check which you have loaded.)

Hi All

I upgraded to 2.6.3 and had the same problem with my USB mouse.

So I modprobed all the modules that you guys (and gals?) listed, and now my mouse is working - thanks for that.

The question is, what can I do so that these modules will load automatically every time I boot instead of me needing to manually modprobe them all the time?

Thanks

Hi There,

Simply add the modules you want to load at boot time to /etc/modules

Thanks,
n.

I found that debian for some reason won't load the uhci module which is needed for the mouse. In slack it works fine. Problem solved by recompiling the kernel with uhci support build in.