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USB mouse is on, but not working....

I just installed slackware 9.1. I have a USB optical mouse. Its light is on, but the cursor is not reacting when the mouse moves.

I have a USB keyboard, which is working well.

Could anyone tell me how to solve this problem ?

thanks.

you have to add it in your /etc/XF86Config

It should look like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"

    Identifier  "Mouse1"

    Driver      "mouse"

    Option      "Protocol"      "auto"

    Option      "Device"        "/dev/input/mice"

EndSection

and in the Serverlayout section add

Code:

InputDevice "Mouse1" "AlwaysCore"

This lets you plug in other USB-mice as well.

Hey, man, I still haven't got the mouse running.

here is my XF86Config code:

Code:

    

    Identifier        "Mouse1"

    Driver        "mouse"

    Option "Protocol"    "Auto"

    Option "Device"      "/dev/mouse"

and for the ServerLayout section, I have :

Code:

 

    InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"

any idea?

Erm,.... check what I wrote and what you wrote! Note the difference?

A USB mouse uses another inputsystem that create device files in /dev/input. There should be several /dev/input/mouseX and one /dev/input/mice and a couple others. "mice" stands for all mouseX together.

To check whether it's there or not, do a `cat /dev/input/mice` and move your mouse. You should see gibberish. Those are signals from your mouse and they mean that the device is working.

Then you have to change "/dev/mouse" to "/dev/input/mice".

If not then do an `lsmod` and post it here.

yes, you are right, using cat /dev/input/mice, the mouse was generating something on the screen. However, after modified the XF86Config as you told, startx cannot work. so I turned it back to the old setting( the one showed in old post), and

this is the result of lsmod:

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted

snd-pcm-oss            37252  0

snd-mixer-oss          11992  0  [snd-pcm-oss]

usbkbd                  3416  0  (unused)

keybdev                1952  0  (unused)

mousedev                4244  0

hid                    21156  0  (unused)

usbmouse                2008  0  (unused)

input                  3200  0  [usbkbd keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse]

snd-intel8x0          17156  0

snd-pcm                55904  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0]

snd-timer              13252  0  [snd-pcm]

snd-ac97-codec        37240  0  [snd-intel8x0]

snd-page-alloc          6004  0  [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]

snd-mpu401-uart        3136  0  [snd-intel8x0]

snd-rawmidi            12512  0  [snd-mpu401-uart]

snd-seq-device          3920  0  [snd-rawmidi]

snd                    27460  0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]

soundcore              3332  3  [snd]

eepro100              19380  1

mii                    2304  0  [eepro100]

usb-ohci              18888  0  (unused)

ehci-hcd              16872  0  (unused)

usbcore                58400  1  [usbkbd hid usbmouse usb-ohci ehci-hcd]

ds                      6568  2

yenta_socket          10368  1

pcmcia_core            40032  0  [ds yenta_socket]

ide-scsi                9424  0

agpgart                39576  0  (unused)

I appreciate your help. thanks.

I have the exact same problem, when I tried the modifications to the XF86Config file startx just wouldn't work so I had to revert to the original.

Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Ignore my question, did some more digging and found the solution. For anyone else that is stuck, here where I found it:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ight=usb+mouse