I recenly went to the trouble of recompiling my kernel but i have run into some problems. Most of them i have gotten ironed out but i am still having problems with my USB mouse. when i boot i get the message :

/dev/mouse: No such device

when i try to cat /dev/mouse and /dev/input/mice I get a message:

root@hotbox [/]# cat /dev/mouse
cat: /dev/mouse: No such device
root@hotbox [/]# cat /dev/input/mice
cat: /dev/input/mice: No such device

My boot messages regarding usb are similar to the following:

root@hotbox [/]# dmesg | grep USB
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 11
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 5
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd000, IRQ 10
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2
: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb2:2.0

apparently it finds the mouse but isn't mapping it to /dev/mouse correctly, any ideas? I made sure i compiled usb hid into the kernel, perhaps there was something else i neglected to comile in?

I tried to reinstall the kernel from the cd, but to no avail.

alas, i am out of ideas.

Thanks for hte help,

/dev/mouse is a symlink to another device usually, you probably either compiled in support for usb devfs or compiled it out, I can't remember Slack's default, I've got too much PS/2 kit. What's the symlink on /dev/mouse point to:

ls -l /dev/mouse

Cheers,

Finegan

/dev/mouse points to /dev/input/mice but that device doen't exist either, as i pointed out in my first post.

Thanks.

Where is the flag to compile in usb devfs support?

Thanks

Its under the usb subsection in a make menuconfig, you might want to just try:

rm /dev/mouse
ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/usb/mouse0

That might be it...

Cheers,

Finegan

nah, /dev/usb/mouse0 does not exist either.

i've recompiled a couple of things in again, and i modprobe mousedev in at boot. Now /dev/input/mice and /dev/mouse exist but produce no output. 'cat'ting them produces no output.

i presume the usb devfs flag i'm looking for is the 'preliminary usb device fs' under usb support-----> (kernel 2.4.20)

Thanks,

OK, i'm one step closer to getting this thing solved. I browsed throught he kernel config help file a little and found that for usb mice to work, i had to compile in 'usb hid support' and 'usb hid input layer support.'

so i select them from the make menudonfig list. and compile

make dep
make clean
make bzImage

and i get these errors when it gets to the usb section:

dirvers/usb/esbdrv.o(,text+0x153cd): In fucntion 'hidinput_hid_event':
: undefined reference to 'input_event'
[...]
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

this has me thouroghly stumped... any ideas?

Thanks,

Alriight! i finally got it working, Thanks for all the help...

It turns out that 'usb hid support' requires the 'input core support' to be compiled the same way as it is. I had usb support compiled into the kernel and input core compiled as a module, that was producing the comile-time errors. when i changed them both to compile into the kernel it worked like a dream.

Thanks for the help, finegan.