Hey there,
just installed Slackware 9.0, and im pretty happy with that (im a newbie, tho)

Im working on a Gericom Per4mance Radeon Notebook with following stats:

P4 2,53ghz
512mb RAM
Radeon Mobility 9000
and so on .... dont think the rest is important

After fighting with the graphics i cant get my mouse working - i got 4 USB slots, but none of them work - i think Linux is in trouble with the USB bus (or so).
It works fine with RH9, even if i got an error message on boot ...

Any infos missing? Im a noob, so i dont know how to fetch the error ;(

Help me please!! Huge thanx ...

First of all, check whether any USB modules
have been loaded ...
lsmod

What type of USB has that box got?
1.1 or 2?

Cheers,
Tink

Hey there,
thanx for an answer

lsmod
shows me this:

bash-2.05b# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
CDCEther 11868 0 (unused)
ntfs 51040 1 (autoclean)
keybdev 1952 0 (unused)
mousedev 4212 0 (unused)
hid 18596 0 (unused)
usbmouse 2008 0 (unused)
input 3200 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]
ohci1394 16264 0 (unused)
ieee1394 30828 0 [ohci1394]
i810_audio 21160 1
ac97_codec 9512 0 [i810_audio]
soundcore 3332 2 [i810_audio]
usb-ohci 18856 0 (unused)
usbcore 58144 1 [CDCEther hid usbmouse usb-ohci]
ds 6568 1
yenta_socket 9632 1
pcmcia_core 38112 0 [ds yenta_socket]
ide-scsi 8048 0
sis900 13484 1


Mhm, afaik they are USB 2!

Do you know where the bootlog is located? That thing shows me dozens of errors ...

Just type
dmesg

Or, if that is too much recent output (some
errors keep repeating :}) look in /var/log
files of interest would be
messages
syslog
debug

If it's USB 2, try unloading ohci
modprobe -r usb-ohci
and loading ehci
modprobe ehci-hcd


Cheers,
Tink

Wahoow, good news!

this is what dmesg | grep usb showed me (before doing anything)

bash-2.05b$ dmesg | grep usb
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb.c: deregistering driver usbdevfs
usb.c: deregistering driver hub
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe4910000, IRQ 9
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe4912000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.1, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe4914000, IRQ 10
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (#3)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc012) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse
input0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on usb2:2.0
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:03.1-1 address 2
input0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on usb2:3.0
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver CDCEther
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:03.1-1 address 3
input0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on usb2:4.0


i like the last msg - Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse on usb2:4.0 - looks good! Seems as if USB works (changing the USB slots changes dmesg's output) !!

The only question is: how can i activate the mouse without reinstalling?

--- edit ----

I think usb-ohci works - i can load it without any error msgs; ehci-hcd keeps telling me this (i think thats the same msg i got while booting)

bash-2.05b# modprobe ehci-hcd
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/hcd/ehci-hcd.o.gz: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/hcd/ehci-hcd.o.gz: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/hcd/ehci-hcd.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/hcd/ehci-hcd.o.gz failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/hcd/ehci-hcd.o.gz: insmod ehci-hcd failed

You might have to do a search on
USB and mouse here .... I don't
use any usb rodents but recall that
people had to symlink something
from either /dev/input or /dev/usb
to /dev/mouse to get their USB mice
to work...


Cheers,
Tink

Yeah, got it! Everything works fine now - the touchpad and the USB mouse at the same time!

Heres a part of my XF86Config :

------------ start ----------------

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse2]"
Option "ButtonNumber" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
Screen "Screen 1"
EndSection

--------- end -------------

mouse1 is the touchbad; mouse2 the usb mouse. Dont forget to add
InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents"
to the Section ServerLayout! This means that the Touchpad is the Core Device (CorePointer) and the USB-Mouse kinda support-mouse - it moves the same Pointer! (SendCoreEvents)


Huge thanx Tinkster - you safed my hd from another format

Glad I could throw you a few pointers mate,
pleased to see you're all happy now :}


Cheers, and God bless,
Tink

Hi Zaubara and Tink
what abt if I want to install RH9 on a new machine and how do i use lsmod or dmesg kind of commands so that I can install without problem. My installation gets stuck in a place where the screen shows something like : USB.c, usb-uhci.c ....
thnx

ive usb adsl modem

and also have problem to setup my internet connection . . .

i ll take some infos in the slack , and right way post here , and i hope some1 help me figure out how to get my internet in linuy
thank you anyway