USB mouse on a new 2.6.5 kernel
 

I just installed a 2.6.5 kernel on my fresh Debian (woody) system and I can't get gpm to see my usb mouse.

I don't use X and have yet to see if X does it. I suspect not, because:

cat /dev/input/m* (mice, mouseX) yields "No Such Device"
cat /dev/usb/mouse* (mouseX) yields "No Such Device"

I did load all the usb modules (with the new module-init-tools), and tried various combinations. They all seem to work just fine.

I did not, however, set CONFIG_USB_MOUSE to Y because the help text (I use make menuconfig) seemed to very strongly recommend against it. Apparently it is used for special (eg, non-desktop systems).

Is this true? Do I need this module? What else could be the trouble?

Also: /dev/bus/usb does not exist. Is this deprecated?

update: If you're running a 2.6 kernel with a USB mouse, can you please post an 'lsmod' for me to see?

Thanks!

My system has evdev and hid (human interface devices in the config) kernel modules compiled and loaded, and then the mouse events are on /dev/event something or other, as well as /dev/input/mouse1 (and /dev/input/mice )

evdev 9504 0
tsdev 7168 0
usbmouse 5216 0
hid 53312 0
uhci-hcd 29104 0
usbcore 99132 5 usbmouse,hid,uhci-hcd


That's what's loaded on my box with 2.6.3-7mdk. Not sure what tsdev is (seems to have to do with x,y-resolution - perhaps to do with the mouse)

tsdev will be touch screen device - remove this to be on the safe side. Maybe your usb mouse is incorrectly detected? does 'dmesg' give any information. I get a lot of loggin output for USB devices , even without the extra debugging info option in the kernel configuration.

If you know how, you can recompile your kernel with extra debugging info. In the meantime, try this:

cat /dev/input/mouse0

then wiggle your mouse
try this for each of the possible devices, and dev/eventxxx , and /dev/psaux as it could be mirrored here from the real source. Personally, I've never used gpm and don't see the point.

Ah.... I see you didn't read my post:

cat /dev/input/mice (and all the variants thereof, such as mouseX)
gave "No such device". /dev/input/mouseX as well.

Anyway, I seem to have gotten it working. I tried evdev with usbmouse and it kicked in instantaneously. Now it works withouh evdev too! Some weirdness is going on, I tell you: it didn't used to work with just ohci_hcd, usbcore, and usbmouse, but now it does. Oh the finicky ways of the kernel.

So thanks everyone for ya'll's help!