USB Mouse Not Working

Adam Scarcella adamo97 at comcast.net
Fri Mar 5 21:55:04 UTC 2004


>>>> Adam Scarcella wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I recently upgraded to the latest rawhide development packages, including
>>>> kernel 2.6.3 and almost everything works, except for my Optical USB mouse.
>>>> It's an MS IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0
>>>> 
>>>> It still works fine when I boot with kernel 2.4.22
>>>> 
>>>> Can someone please help me get my stupid MS mouse to work again?
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Adam Scarcella =)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Do you use /dev/input/mice as mouse device?
>>> 
>>> Alexander
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure if I am using /dev/input/mice, how do I find out?
>> 
>> And if I am using /dev/input/mice - what does that mean?
>> 
>> Adam =)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Check XF86Config
> 
> line  /dev/input/mice
> 
> should be there twice
> 
Yes, I checked "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config" and I found "/dev/input/mice"
twice. Once for each of:

    Identifier  "Mouse0"
    Identifier  "DevInputMice"

But what does that mean? Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Adam =)





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