Wireless, USB Mouse problems with Slackware-current
I'm an utter newbie when it comes to linux, but I hope to think I have caught on quickly, however I am having difficulty with a piece of hardware: My USB Mouse.
I have looked all over, and seen many problems dealing with similar issues to mine, but none of the fixes I see ever work. I'm going to include as much as I think will help, but if I leave anything out let me know. I installed Slack with the full option, so I should have any/everything I need, assuming what I need came with the distro. *** Mouse: I have a Gyration Wireless mouse/keyboard suite that works wonderfully under XP; however, when I boot Slack, I only get the keyboard. I've tried to cat every mouse/mice/usb/etc in the /dev folder, but never get any results. My receiver is obviously receiving (little lights blink happily when I move the mouse) but nothing seems to make it to the input stream. excerpt from boot messages Code:
Feb 17 08:40:59 TheSelf kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd I have had luck plugging in another USB mouse, a generic CompUSA usb 2-button mouse, and it works fine, and strangely enough, when it is connected my wireless mouse sends data to /dev/mice if I start x and move the normal, wired mouse then everything is fine, but if I move the wireless one, I get the symptoms I have seen elsewhere: only up and down motion, with button presses moving the cursor right at different speeds. I may end up using a wired mouse, if there is no cure, but I'd rather be able to use my fancy wireless one. Ive talked with several of my <semi>linux competent friends (no one I know actually uses it, they have all just tinkered) and they all tell me I need special drivers. Are they correct? or is it more like I suspect, that the data my mouse is sending just isn't going where I expect it to. *** since I see this in many of the other questions, the output from lsmod: Code:
Module Size Used by Not tainted Thanks in advance for any help |
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Have you tried the device /dev/input/mice? I had to make that change yesterday when I changed from a PS/2 mouse to a USB mouse.
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I'm not going to be able to poke at my computer until much later this evening, but at first glance, I don't think that solution is going to work for me.
The mouse is not being misrecognized, or if it is, its definately not as a keyboard. Judging from the boot messages, *something* knows I have a usbmouse, as usbmouse.c is getting loaded. I will continue to poke, however, and let everyone know when I get this working. |
Also, I'm not familiar with this mouse/keyboard package. Do they both connect to the same USB port? If so, does it act like a USB hub? Post the output of
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lsusb |
Another note:
I have a USB intellimouse and I had to remove the usbmouse module from the kernel to get the mouse to work properly in X Windows. Before I removed that, the only motion I could get was vertical motion. I don't know if this only applies to Microsoft USB mice or all USB mice, but later on if you run into that problem, all I did was add Code:
/sbin/rmmod usbmouse |
It's working!
I've had the same problem with my usb mouse...going only up and down and on leftclick...going right!Phathead cured me :).I used his advice ->
go in: /etc/rc.d/rc.local add new line: /sbin/rmmod usbmouse reboot That worked for me! I have a Genius NetScroll+Superior USB mouse. Before this I tried everything I could, like editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf(XF86Config fore some).I tried all availeble protocols,devices(mice)...and nothing; until I visited this forum :) |
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