USB,HCI,hotplug working, cant get USB mouse to work!!!

ruizs · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

Hi -

a bit frustrated. I did a stage one install, most everything has gone very well. I'm new to gentoo, but not to linux.

I have a nforce2 board, and I've tried everything to get my mouse working... to test, I'm trying gpm and cat /dev/input/mice, no luck.

In my .config for the kernel, I have all the USB HCI, HID enabled, tried both in the kernel and as modules. There's some lines about the USB controller, etc. in the startup log, but nothing for the mouse. I can take it out and put it back in, no luck either.
I have an ms intellimouse, the thing does light up, not sure if that's from bios or linux.

I have a usb card reader, and I was able to plug it in, and see all the messages in the log.

any ideas here?!

thanks in advance for your help, can't wait to get this fully setup... its so fast!

griffenjam · n00b Joined: 01 Jan 2004 Posts: 43

I would enable all USB drivers as modules, but maybe try you mouse in each USB socket first. I don't know about your board but some have USB 1.2 sockets and 2.0 sockets mixed, if that is the case you will need the drivers for each, as is the case with my laptop.

What is the output of lspci -v and lsmod?

ruizs · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

lsmod shows rd, ipip, and sound.
I dont have lspci avail., how can i get it?

I have already tried each usb port... I'll post some more detail once i get sshd configured.

KeKen · n00b Joined: 22 Feb 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Almere, NL

jwalker · n00b Joined: 08 Jan 2004 Posts: 37

pciutils shouldn't help you out any with usb related questions. Instead, emerge sysfsutils and run `lsbus -v usb'

edit: this is assuming you are using 2.6
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ruizs · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

I'm at 2.4 right now, I'll try out the 2.6 kernel tonite.

ruizs · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

Still no luck with the usb mouse.
I compiled and setup a 2.6 kernel, similar options, and it won't work. lsbus -v usb only lists the controller

I did find a usb->ps2 convertor at work today, so I'm just gonna go with that. I figure, instead of spending all kinds of time on that, I can have a working system, and an extra usb port. Thx for the help tho.

sulu · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 9:19 am Post subject:

Hi

I just recently switched over to kernel 2.6 on my lappi which has several USB devices. Lazy as i am i compiled everything into the kernel and not as modules. All the USB-devices work only performance on my Genesys-USB2-HD is pretty bad.

Anyway, some hints.
Go into the kernel-config and enable everything what makes sense to you.
(Cant post my config because i'm not in front of my gentoo-box right now)

There are two different drivers USB-drivers OHCI and UHCI. It depends on your board which one to use.
For USB-2-support you also need EHCI.

I recommend to emerge lsusb which works analog lspci.

Then have a look at your /var/log/messages and check what is reportet regarding USB.

If your mouse is an optical one light should go on if the device gets detectet.

LeTene · Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:19 am Post subject:

For 2.6, check out this thread where I helped with a similar problem with USB mouse. Note how you need mouse support enabled in the "Input Device Support" section:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=195701

sulu is right in that you should only use one of UHCI/OHCI, so that bears watching.
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