[plug] MDK 10.1Comm. USB/Mouse Woes..

[Simon Duff]

Does your mouse power up (red laser light and all that)?
You could try having a look around /lib/modules/$(uname 
-r)/kernel/driver/usb (I think that's right) and just modprobing random 
drivers (hid, mousedev, ohci, ehci, uhci blahblahblah) and see if any 
have an affect. If they do, you could then make them autoload. I'm not 
sure how mandrake handles modules, maybe it uses hotplugging or similar 
to load required drivers itself.

You could try rebuilding your kernel, probably a good idea to update 
anyway, extra security patches and things always coming out.

If you're still stuck, give me a yell and I'll come round and look at it.

Simon

Muskie Teh Otterboi wrote:

> Hey all. I'm currently Running Mandrake 10.1 Community in a Dual-boot 
> situation with Windows.
> Basically, my problem is that MDK simply refuses to acknowledge my MS 
> USB Wheel Mouse Optical (ye olde OEM Optical Wheel Mouse. 20 bucks and 
> it's the best damn optical you can get without shelling out 300 bucks 
> for a wireless dealie, but I digress) in my system. I highly Suspect 
> that Mandrake is having Serious problems with it's USB support, so I'm 
> going to be reinstalling MDK and then Upgrading to 10.1 Official. I 
> was planing on doing this anyway, but I'm just wondering why the heck 
> Mandrake's having Problems with my Mobo.. it's an Nforce2 chipset, BTW.
>
> Strangely, Knoppix 3.6 (Thankyou, Atomic Mag!) Makes my mouse work 
> perfectly, But produces yet another flaw: X Autodetects my Monitor V/H 
> Rates wrong and when it initialises, the Screen is B0rked.
>
> You know, for some strange reason, i've had But ONE single problem 
> with linux, whatever distribution it decided to be (Debian wouldn't 
> start X, Mandrake Doesen't Like my mouse (not to mention the control 
> center crasheds, but I think that';s a related problem) and Knoppix 
> Detects my Refresh rates incorrectly.. Feh. :P
>
> Muskie
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