Stupid Mouse

ElementNine · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 15

Okay i have a wireless M$ optimouse with scroll wheel (ice to be exact). Ive read every post on here about installing a mouse but i just cant get this one working. Ive configured the kernel with all the different options i could think of and still nothing. The light wont even turn on, on the reciever. I've tried cat /dev/{all mouse type devices including usb} and they all show up blank, lsmod is blank, im not sure what else to do. Im using the 2.6.1 kernel, can anyone help.
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Bombs14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 140

I've had similar problems, I'm sure you already enabled all the USB stuff into the kernel, there's one other thing though.

I'm not sure which one it is, but I think busmouse or ps/2 support also needs to be enabled.

ps/2 support is in "input device support"

busmouse is in "character devices -> mice"

if I remember correctly, your problem is the busmouse not being enabled.

ElementNine · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 15

nope i have bus mouse enabled, i switched everything to modules but i notice that when i boot up it says it cant find the modules the:
mousedev
hid
input
usbcore

and when i lsmod nothing shows up so is there maybe something thats not linked right and the kernel can't find the modules?
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ElementNine · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 15

Also another thing that might help im using a radeon 9600 so i use the fglrxconfig instead of the normal config for X. maybe its using the old xconfig file instead of the one created by fglrx (xf86config-4)
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smiley · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Dec 2003 Posts: 127

I suppose I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure busmouse is for mouses that connect to a serial port, not ps/2 or usb

I assume you're connecting it to the usb port? Have you tried using an adapter to connect it to the ps/2 port?

ElementNine · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 15

well the problem is, is that its failing to load the modules during the start up is says :
failed to load modules
usbcore
failed to load module
hid
and so on so for some reason its not finding the modules that are needed
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Bombs14 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 140

kernel 2.6 has different module names for usb, so double check what they are called in the kernel config help.

ElementNine · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Posts: 15

i think this is a lost cause, I've tried everything i can think of its just not working, im really gonna hate going back to red hat but its the only version of linux that will actually seem to work.
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jaz9090 · Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2003 Posts: 214

I know i wont be popular for suggesting this, but have u tried using the anaconda (red hat) installer for gentoo? http://gentoo.vidalinux.com/?q=node/view/35