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hackerError
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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 5:43 pm Post subject: fresh gentoo install... doh, no mouse |
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I have just installed gentoo. I decided to try the udev way without devfs. Everything booted fine, and I was getting excited, then I attempted to run gpm. It didn't throw any errors, so I tried to move the mouse. Hmm, no response. I looked at the mouse, and realized the laser wasn't on. Plugging it into a different box immediatley powered up the laser, and the mouse worked. I checked dmesg and it was silent about plugging in and unplugging the mouse, hmm, so I started hotplug and checked dmesg again, and it said that it found my tv card, and did its business with that, but still no mention of usb mouse or printer or gamepad. I am running the current development-sources (2.6.6-rc1) any help would be appreciated!
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dsd
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Location: nr London
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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which type of mouse is it? i assume it is USB.
are you sure you compiled the right USB support into the kernel? if you used modules, are you sure you loaded them?
one common pitfall is not compiling in support for your USB bus(es). there are 3 types: OHCI, UHCI, EHCI. to find out which ones you have, run:
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and look towards the right side of each line of output. make sure you have compiled the appropriate support into the kernel.
(lspci is in the pciutils package)
second pitfall is udev related (this almost certainly isnt the problem you are getting now, but i expect you may fall into this trap right after you fix the first issue) - X by default looks for the mouse at /dev/mouse or something (i don't remember the exact node). edit your XFree/Xorg config so that it is using /dev/input/mice instead.
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Julle
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Location: Oulu, Finland
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 11:28 am Post subject: |
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I installed Gentoo to my main computer yesterday. Everything went well until I fired up X. Mouse didn't work.
Last night and this morning I spent hours trying to get the mouse to work. Then I found this post and went to check my kernel... didn't have UCHI included. Re-compiled kernel and now mouse works like a charm.
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Location: Coimbra, Portugal
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 11:36 am Post subject: |
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Note that on kernel 2.6.5 and over, hci changed name to usbhci.
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