Microsoft Optical Desktop Pro not Working under XFree86 4.3

bharath_ramesh · 02-25-2004, 10:00 AM

I have a Wirless Optical Desktop Pro made by Microsoft. It works fine when I have it in the PS/2 setup. If I use the usb setup the only thing that works is my keyboard and my mouse is not detected at all. I use hotplug to detect my usb devices. My dmesg shows that my mouse has been detected but it doesnt load the usbmouse and mousedev modules. Even if I do insert these modules it doesnt work. Anyone has any idea as to how to get it working?

bnice · 02-25-2004, 10:34 AM

when you use USB your mouse device changes from /dev/psaux to /dev/input/mice.

Typically, there is a soft link from /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux.

To use USB:

Code:

cd /dev
rm /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse

to revert to PS/2 (in case it still doesn't work)

Code:

cd /dev
rm /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse

As far as automagically loading the modules, I dunno... (Don't use em, like big kernels

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bharath_ramesh · 02-25-2004, 03:04 PM

I did that after inserting my mouse. I tried a cat /dev/input/mice and when I move my mouse or click the buttons nothing happens in my shell. But when I have the mouse set up as PS/2 and then do the same I get junk characters. I am not sure whats happening as to why my mouse is not being detected. Any help is appreciated on this topic.