USB Mouse problems/xFree Problems

FzM · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 6

When I first did my install of Gentoo (2004.2 using the 2.4 Kernel), my ethernet wasn't working. I booted to the LiveCD, and did lsmod and compared driver lists, and was able to fix my ethernet problems.

When I booted to gentoo via Grub; my mouse was not responsive. The laser light is on, and I know the mouse works; I tried it on my windows machine (to make sure it works hardware wise). I did both lsmod and lsusb on both the LiveCD and on my gentoo install. and it is showing the mouse. However the mouse doesn't work! :?:

Secondly, I have emerged xfree86, and that went very well. However, when I run "/usr/bin/x11/xf86config", my keyboard and mouse (mouse wasn't responding already), do not work at all.

Thanks to any and help that I can acquire.

PS. How would I go about setting up my network drivers so that I don't have to modprobe them everytime I reboot?
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pk_volt · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 51

you can either build the modules into the kernel by going into the menuconfig and select teh network driver so that it has a * beside it

or you can load the module everytime on startup by editing the
/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4

as far as your mouse goes, doublecheck your kernel menuconfig to ensure all appropriate usb/input device drivers are loaded.

johnnyICON · Apprentice Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 296 Location: Canada

So what version of Gentoo are you using right now? 2004.3?

LiveCD will detect your mouse of course, but it's a different story when booting Gentoo itself, that is because LiveCD will detect most of your hardware. You have to properly setup your mouse through the xorg.conf. Have you tried running xorgconfig?
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FzM · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 6

I am using the 2004.2 version of Gentoo. I am going to try and work with menuconfig right now. I will let y'all know how that goes.
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FzM · n00b Joined: 06 Jan 2005 Posts: 6

By the way, how do I de-modprobe. I would just be using it to test which drivers work and which don't.
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AMD K6-2 266
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30 Gig ??? Hard-drive
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pk_volt · n00b Joined: 21 Dec 2004 Posts: 51

to remove a module, type rmmod nameofmodule