[plug] Latest Debian Woe - Mices

Trent Lloyd trent at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri Jun 21 13:36:37 WST 2002


i beleive its

/dev/input/mice

not /dev/usb/mouse0

i use /dev/usb/mouse0 drive ImPS/2 (intellimouse ps/2 i thnk)


On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 01:04:16PM +0800, Andre wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> For a short period of time I though I had success when I saw my optical 
> USB mouse light up when my Debian Woody (2.4) playbox booted.  Then I 
> tried moving the pointer.  Mice and me do not go well.  I had tried a Bus 
> mouse (its a P100 / Socket5 CPU / AT) but found all that I have don't 
> work.  So in goes a PCI USB card and a Samsung Cyberbeatle.
> 
> I guess I got close as eventually I saw the light (the one from the 
> mouse!) but I cant seem to get the XF86Config file correct I think?  I 
> have it set as:
> 
>         Section "InputDevice"
>         # Identifier and driver
>                 Identifier "USB1"
>                 Driver "mouse"
>                 Protocol "IMPS/2"
>                 Device "/dev/usb/mouse0"
>         EndSection
> 
> I have tried several other candidates for the Device but none seem to 
> work.  Any takers?
> 
> Cheers in advance.
> 
> 
> -Andre
> 



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