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Babliren n00b
Joined: 04 Dec 2003 Posts: 7
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:27 pm Post subject: gentoo-dev kernel 2.6.8-r1, usb logitec mouse, kvm [solved] |
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So, this is going to sound silly. Has anyone else had difficulties getting a standard usb logitech two button wheel mouse to work with the Gentoo-dev 2.6.8-r1 kernel? With the Xorg config, the mouseman and microsoft protocol makes the mouse dance all over the screen when moved with no particular method to it. All other protocols make x axis movement move the mouse curser on the y axis; Y movement does nothing; and all buttons move it a pixel to the right.
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "mouseman"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
EndSection
It's just a simple logitech 2 button wheel mouse. I have a Trendnet KVM switch that puts both keyboard and mouse into a single usb port. This doesn't seem to be the issue though because the keyboard works just fine and I get the same behavior from the mouse if I skip the KVM and put it directly in a USB port. The mouse itself isn't broken because it works fine through the KVM on my windows machine.
I did a "cat /dev/input/mouse0" and got unique gibberish with every movement and button. I'm assuming mouse and USB drivers are set up correctly. Anyone have a magical suggestion? I don't want to use a 2.4 kernel if I don't have to.
Last edited by Babliren on Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:04 am; edited 2 times in total |
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didl Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 1106 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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Running 2.6.7 here and logitech mouse works just great
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "DevInputMice"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
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Babliren n00b
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the input, but that didn't end up working any better unfortunately. It's still only moving vertically when the mouse gets horizontal movement, and I can't get horizontal results at all, except by clicking the buttons I might try a 2.6.7 kernel and see if I get better results |
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didl Retired Dev
Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 1106 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Just try to boot with the most recent Live CD and see if you
get it to work. |
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Babliren n00b
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 2:55 am Post subject: |
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After some more tinkering and changing it so USB was compiled as modules rather than right into the kernel, I decided to retry plugging the mouse directly into the computer's USB port. It worked perfectly.
Either I was absent minded when I tried bypassing the KVM earlier, confused the mice, and didn't actually bypass it; or else having them as modules altered my results (I'm betting the former).
Also, I have a machine with a slackware 2.4.22 build on it. To test, I hooked the KVM up with the same mouse and keyboard. Both worked just fine without any kernel recompiles or anything. All I had to do was change xfree86's config to /dev/input/mouse0.
I figure that implies that either the different motherboard influenced the mouse input or else the 2.6.8 kernel is incompatible with this (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=17-107-250&depa=0) KVM. Consider yourselves warned |
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Babliren n00b
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2004 4:08 am Post subject: |
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It works! There was a problem in my kernel config.
It turns out that taking...
USB HIDBP Mouse (Simple boot) support
..out of the kernel got rid of my problem. With that feature enabled, it worked fine directly in the USB port, but not through the KVM. When I turned it off, it now works through the KVM. |
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g3n Guru
Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 543 Location: México
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Babliren wrote: | It works! There was a problem in my kernel config.
It turns out that taking...
USB HIDBP Mouse (Simple boot) support
..out of the kernel got rid of my problem. With that feature enabled, it worked fine directly in the USB port, but not through the KVM. When I turned it off, it now works through the KVM. |
Where is that _USB HIDBP Mouse _ option kernel option?, i cant find it
im running Code: | irom linux # uname -a
Linux irom 2.6.8-rc3 #1 SMP Tue Aug 31 10:04:05 CDT 2004 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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