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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> My new machine boots & has the basic software installed. |
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> Fluxbox starts & I can stop it via its menu & the keyboard. |
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> However, it doesn't recognise my Logitech optical mouse, |
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> which doesn't show up in the 'dmesg' list nor as /dev/input/mouse0 . |
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> It's not a hardware problem : rebooting into System Rescue |
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> without touching the connections results in a working mouse |
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> & it is listed correctly there by 'dmesg' & as /dev/input/mouse0 . |
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> I've checked the Kernel settings & they seem all to be where they sb, |
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> but the new machine is using 3.5.3 , whereas this one uses 3.4.0 . |
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> I used the older .config , went thro' 'make oldconfig' |
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> & then thro' 'make menuconfig', so the same mouse lines should remain. |
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> Has anything changed in Kernel 3.5 ? |
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> /etc/make.conf has the line INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" , like this machine. |
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> Udev doesn't seem to differ significantly. |
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> Google doesn't help, the Gentoo Wiki seems a bit out of date, |
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> the User's Guide doesn't add anything. Unfortunately, |
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> when I started using a USB mouse back in 2007 , |
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> I didn't make a note of what I did to get it working, as I usually do. |
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> Can anyone suggest what I'm missing ? |
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I recently had mouse/keyboard fail to work in X, despite drivers being |
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rebuilt, and the solution for me was to put this in my Xorg.conf file: |
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Section "ServerFlags" |
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Option "AutoAddDevices" "true" |
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Option "AutoEnableDevices" "true" |
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