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Help with USB mouse

Using Ubuntu 8.04 it won't initialize a usb mouse on my laptop. The synaptics touchpad works fine but I would really like to use a mouse every now and then.

Here is the output of lsusb:

Code:

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical Mouse

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

and the relevant part of dmesg:

Code:

[    9.168000] usb 2-2: string descriptor 0 read error: -110

[    9.168000] usb 2-2: configuration #0 chosen from 1 choice

[    9.168000] usb 2-2: config 0 descriptor??

[  14.168000] usb 2-2: can't set config #0, error -110

[  28.684000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5

and the output of lspci:

Code:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS200/RS200M AGP Bridge [IGP 340M] (rev 02)

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]

00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)

00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533/M1535 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV/V/V+]

00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation M5457 AC'97 Modem Controller

00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/SmartCardBus Controller

00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)

00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 50)

00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)

00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)

00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)

00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]

00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 330M/340M/350M

Any and all help is appreciated

dose the mouse work on another computer?
running Gnu/Linux?
dose the usb work otherwise

the mouse works fine with windows, but not linux.

usb hotplug seems to work fine when I use a flash drive.

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Originally Posted by cetol (Post 3135916)

the mouse works fine with windows, but not linux.

usb hotplug seems to work fine when I use a flash drive.

if you plug the mouse in before you boot into Linux dose the mouse work?

could you tell me the make and modal of the mouse

did you fix the problem? (if so what did you do to fix it?)

No the mouse does not work. It is just a generic usb optical mouse with a scroll wheel that I bought about 4 years ago when I purchased the laptop. The light on the bottom is on so it is not a power issue.

:study::scratch:

if you open a terminal and type

Code:

cat /dev/input/mice

and move your usb mouse around do you get any output?
hit

Code:

ctrl+c

than if you have a garbled terminal type

Code:

reset

the fact that it shows up in lsusb seams to indicat that the mouse just neads to be configured

has xorg bean configerd for usb mouse?

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