Hi... I've recently installed icepack linux... a lesser known distro... and one of the first questions it asks is what mouse (I have a dell optical usb mouse -- with a middle scroll wheel... doesn't list that so i pick microsoft intellimouse) and then it asks what device its under

I didn't know so I went with the default /dev/mouse -- but after i tried startx it said an error about can't find mouse at /dev/mouse -- so I tried the config again but i picked /dev/tty0 (i think?) still couldnt find it

what device path would a USB mouse use?

Thanks!

/dev/input/mice <-- all usb mice

Post your Mouse section of your /etc/X11/XF86Config file.

I have a similar mouse and mine is:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

I use DevFS, so your wouldnt be /dev/input/mice, it might be /dev/mouse or /dev/usbmouse.

You want to make sure you use IMPS/2 for USB Scroll mice.


Also, make sure your USB modules are loaded,otherwise no USB devices will work, for that, do "lsmod".

/dev/input/mouse0-9 is a specific usb mouse
mice is all of them

contrasutra

his would actually be /dev/input/mice
but I doubt it is linked to /dev/mouse as that is usually linked to /dev/psaux

I also use devfs, in actuality devfs has a different one, but the /etc/devfs.conf file by default makes compatability linsk so we can still use those places, it is in fact we that differ :-P

I am using reiserfs and when I run the installer i type linux lsmod at that prompt?

thanks

Oh, ok. Honestly, I know very little about DevFS. Arch comes with in on by default,and that was my first encounter with it.

I hear DevFS is deprecated anyway, and the 2.6 kernel uses something else.


jon: you run it in a terminal once you're logged on.

no, it just uses a different version of devfs, basically linux has a /dev/(structure) devfs has a /dev/(different structure) the devfs is 2.6 (what I use) is /dev/(another restructuring to make it "better")
each locates drivers into a different place, but for compat each can automatically link to the standards (/dev/input/mice /dev/psaux).

jon_k:
as for saying reiserfs when we said devfs, close but no cigar

reiserfs is a filesystem for a hard drive or othe rmedia that basically tell it where everything is and goes

devfs is when you mount a "fake drive" that isn't a drive at all to /dev, then the kernel automatically places a way to access devices like harddrives and cdroms and mice inside that fake drive. on non devfs systems (yours) /dev/ is on the real harddrive and has files that point to tthe devices like cdroms mice and so on. we got into the discussion because devfs hs a different structure than /dev/files and those differences are what started it..

NOTE: you don't need to understand this, just don't think of reiserfs when you hear devfs

Well, I know the kernel team is planning on completly reworking DevFS and calling it something else. It may be for 2.8 or something though.

2.8?? that is a long long long way off.

also devfs isn't even done by the kernel team, a diiferent guy does it, can't remember where to go though. its in the devfs docs