[plug] usb mouse in debian

[James Bromberger]

Check your kernel version. I am not sure which one that 2.2.r3 shipped with; 
if it is 2.2.17, then you wont have USB support. I think this came in as a 
backport around 2.2.18. Alternatively, live dangerously, and run 2.4.4 
(it is packaged in unstable); I have the packaged 2.4.4 running quite 
smoothly on some machines (and I have built my own on others).

If it sees your USB devices, you should see output like the following 
when you boot to use "dmesg |more":

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x45e/0x1e) is not claimed by any active driver.

This corresponds to my MS Optical Mouse. Now, since I also have Devfs, I 
have a path /dev/input/mice and /dev/input/mouse0. And XF86Config-4 says:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
        Option      "Buttons" "7"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "CorePointer"

Now, this kind of works, all 5 buttons and two scroll directions are 
recognised, but its a bit quirky in I think the wrong buttons are mapped, 
but I am not too phased. Perhaps XFree86 4.1.0, released today, may 
change some of this, but for 4.0.x, you should be fine.


Yours,
  James

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 12:15:04AM +0800, Ryan wrote:
> I have found the instructions in {path to linux kernel 
> source}/Documentation/usb/input.txt to be
> rather useful even to the extent that it fixed all my problems ;)
> 
> Also check dmesg to see if the usb ports are finding any devices, or any 
> ports for that matter!
> 
> <snip from input.txt>
> 2. Simple Usage
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    For the most usual configuration, with one USB mouse and one USB keyboard,
> you'll have to load the following modules (or have them built in to the
> kernel):
> 
>          input.o
>          mousedev.o
>          keybdev.o
>          usbcore.o
>          usb-[uo]hci.o
>          hid.o
> 
>    After this, the USB keyboard will work straight away, and the USB mouse
> will be available as a character device on major 13, minor 63:
> 
>          crw-r--r--   1 root     root      13,  63 Mar 28 22:45 mice
> 
>    This device, has to be created, unless you use devfs, in which case it's
> created automatically. The commands to do that are:
> 
>          cd /dev
>          mkdir input
>          mknod input/mice c 13 63
> 
>    After that you have to point GPM (the textmode mouse cut&paste tool) and
> XFree to this device to use it - GPM should be called like:
> 
>          gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/input/mice
> 
>    And in X:
> 
>          Section "Pointer"
>              Protocol    "ImPS/2"
>              Device      "/dev/input/mice"
>              ZAxisMapping 4 5
>          EndSection
> 
>    When you do all of the above, you can use your USB mouse and keyboard.
> <snip from input.txt>
> 
> At 10:34 PM 02-06-01 +0800, you wrote:
> >hey pplz
> >i just installed a copy of debian 2.2r3, and tried to start x, it just hung,
> >and when i looked at the crash stuff, it said no mouse detected, so i
> >changed the settings, and set it to /dev/usbmouse (which i was told to do)
> >and set the XF86Config to use USB interface, language to talk to the pointer
> >device, and it said the protocol wasnt supported under my operationg system,
> >yet it starts in startup, and works fine in any other usb enabled version of
> >linux.
> >
> >if nayone has any suggestions, plz email me
> >
> >thanks
> >brodie
> 

-- 
 James Bromberger <james_AT_rcpt.to> www.rcpt.to/~james

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