Hi all

I have recently been tinkering with my laptop (sony vaio FE) setting it up for uni etc.

However, I tried to plug in a usb mouse earlier, but it doesn't work. I have plugged it in and unplugged it trying every combination while rebooting to see if that made any difference but it didn't.

Upon browsing the forums I couldn't find anything saying how to fix the problem.

Following some advice on these forums, I have done, yum install usbutils usbview, in the hope that that would help, but alas not.

I also tried the command cat /dev/input/mice, and wiggled the mouse around, which generated a whole mannor of random characters on the screen, which I assume to be good?

The output from dmesg when the mouse is plugged in is:

usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Logitech Optical USB Mouse as /class/input/input5
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1

The output from tail -f /var/log/messages is:

Sep 6 11:54:41 andy-laptop kernel: usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Sep 6 11:54:42 andy-laptop kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Sep 6 11:54:42 andy-laptop kernel: input: Logitech Optical USB Mouse as /class/input/input5
Sep 6 11:54:42 andy-laptop kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1

The output from /sbin/lsmod | grep hci is:

ohci1394 39045 0
ieee1394 303001 1 ohci1394
ehci_hcd 36941 0
uhci_hcd 27981 0

I'm not sure what most of that actually means, although I get the feeling the mouse is recognised (is that correct?). However, the mouse is an Asus mouse not logitech, but am i right in thinking that makes no difference?

Thanks for your help, if anyone knows where to go from here, much appreciated!

This can be changed in your X server configuration file, I think--just add an InputDevice section for your USB mouse (see the man pages on how to do this).