no usb mouse in X

[indietrash]

my mouse isn't working. what might be wrong? cat /dev/input/mice doesn't say anything. I don't use hald. I have auto add blah disabled in xorg.conf. here's my mouse section:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "7"
EndSection




[off-topic slightly] also does anyone know if I can like... emerge -C hal? because I don't really know if I am using it for anything... it's not in any rcs, and it's never running. I can't remember why it's pulled in at all... and what about dbus? what does it actually do for me?

[VinzC]

[indietrash]

I'm putting -hal in make.conf and doing emerge [whatever needs re-compiling], emerge -aDN world, then emerge --depclean, then revdep-rebuild. should do the trick. thanks. let me know if you have any answers on the "more important" question!

[Jaglover]

See Xorg log for clues, try option "auto" instead of "IMPS/2".

[indietrash]

I'm moving the HAL issues to another thread. I'll change the mouse thing to auto and see what happens.

[indietrash]

still no luck. X log: Your paste can be seen here: http://dpaste.com/139871/
it sets sendcorevents to true and everything seems right, but no mouse.

nothing happens when I unplug/plug in (hot plug) the mouse. not log-wise anyway.

[Jaglover]

Hmmm, lets keep things simple, here's my working conf.

[indietrash]

that's pretty much exactly what I have, save for buttons 7, and sendcoreevents because my mouse isn't the corepointer.

[Sysa]

[indietrash]

it worked on my last installation of Gentoo but that's ages ago. I know the mouse should work because it works on my gf's computer. USB support is built in. I don't use modules.

[Sysa]

[Jaglover]

I have no experience with Synaptics, maybe your USB mouse is not picked up correctly because of it? What devices you have in /dev/input ? Maybe you need to define your mouse better for Xorg so it can use correct dev entry?

[d2_racing]

Hi, instead of using the old fashion method, you should read this thread : https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-722498.html

[indietrash]

[Jaglover]

[indietrash]

[Jaglover]

Anyway, the picture would be clearer without synaptics. Can you remove it from xorg.conf and see what happens. Something is screwy here, why multiple mouse devices if you have just one? I mean mouse0 and *1. I have just *0 with one mouse.

[indietrash]

I didn't really see the point of this, but I did it anyway. what that essentially did was make my touchpad ignore my Synpatics settings, like expected. so uh I couldn't scroll and so forth. still no mouse though.

[Jaglover]

cat /proc/bus/input/devices

Is your mouse there?

[indietrash]

don't think so. http://dpaste.com/139971/

I tried unplugging then plugging it in again to no avail. it stayed the same.

[Jaglover]

So it is not supported by kernel, time for make menuconfig. Did it work with install CD?

[indietrash]

... the install CD? I've never used anything but the minimal CD.

[Jaglover]

Doesn't minimal load console mouse driver? Another thing to check is if USB is configured correctly in BIOS. Where this PS/2 mouse comes from?

[indietrash]

idk. I don't use that. I use the keyboard when I'm in vt, lol. I have no configurations in BIOS. mouse works in Windows 7.

are you saying I should try emerging x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev and set driver to evdev instead of mouse?

[Jaglover]

Works in Windows, good. This eliminates possible CMOS corruption.
I'd say it's down to kernel configuration then. Booting with install CD and looking at output of lsmod and /proc/bus/input/devices may give useful clues.