Hello, I have recently installed Debian and I am having trouble configuring my logitech wheel mouse.

The error message I recieve is as follows:

(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
No such device.
(EE) Configured Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit failed for input device "Configured Mouse"
(WW) No core pointer registered
No core pointer


I have searched the net and have tried the following solutions with no avail:

1) When I try and cat /dev/mouse, /dev/psaux, /dev/input/mice they all respond with "No such device"

2) My mouse file looks like such:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


3) I have tried switching the "dev/mouse" to dev/psaux and dev/input/mice but same error occurs.

If anyone has had any similar problems or has any insights on what I should try it would be most appreciated.

Thank You
B

Try

# mknod /dev/psaux c 10 1

and see if that darn mouse pops up. Which kernel version are you running? Is PS/2 mouse support compiled in? Check /proc/interrupts. PS/2 mouse is always on irq 12. If it's not there, then your kernel probably doesn't see it.

Thanks for the help....I actually found that the mouse was disabled in my bios. Thanks for the advice...

B.