Setting up my Intellimouse Optical

Voffinn

Good day gentlemen,

I read the post about how to get your usb Intellimouse Optical working. It made absoutly no sense to me.

I'm rather new to gentoo (and linux in general), so i was just going to get icewm running and start learning from there...

I just do not get it how i am supposed to put up the modules and stuff.

i got hid working but i get this nasty error (as so many before me) in the startup when the modules cant be loaded.

Could someone, that has enough time, put down a good example how iw should do this... It would be apprisieted. =]

I have a Intellimouse Optical, gf4mx, newest gentoo-sources.

I ask you, not to flame this and say, you are stupid, rtfm. I tried that....

Voffinn · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 3:38 pm Post subject:

I have rebuilt the kernel with all the usb thingies, but i get error when autoloading the modules @ startup.

she load up hid, everything else fails, and when i lsmod, she shows up hid, nothing else

antibiotic · Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2003 5:51 pm Post subject:

Uh...can you post some specific logs or messages?
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majunbu · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2003 Posts: 13 Location: Ohio

Qubax · Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2003 3:33 pm Post subject:

i recommend to use usbmouse instead of hid - the only way i got a an optical m$ intellimouse working. also i've put all the stuff mentioned in the howto (input-mouse,uhci, usb ...) into the kernel and not as modules

you should get a "file" /dev/input/mouse0 (if i remember right)
cat this file and move your mouse - if you see a lot of **** on the screen everything works
put the path in your xfree config file - done

al · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2002 Posts: 304 Location: Scotland

To get my Microsoft Optical mouse working i had to modprobe the following modules:

usb-ohci
hid
input
mousedev

Remember to add the modules to /etc/modules.autoload when you get it working so they load when you reboot.