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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-user] mouse problem with old machine
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 00:47:10
Message-Id: 20150109004700.GA1045@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] USB mouse query by Philip Webb
1 I want to get my oldest machine, built 2003, to work :
2 it wakes up ok, but it doesn't recognise my mouse.
3 My memory is that there was a change in mice sometimes since 2003
4 & that I needed to use one of the earlier kind for this machine ;
5 unfortunately, I've discarded those mice long ago.
6
7 I've been trying to get it to work with a USB mouse,
8 making step-by-step changes in a 4-year-old Gentoo installation :
9
10 (1) I enabled USB_HID in the kernel + OHCI + EHCI ;
11 (2) I remerged xf86-input-mice xorg-server nvidia-drivers ;
12 (3) /dev/input/mice exists ;
13 (4) /var/log/syslog reports :
14 "mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice" ;
15 (5) /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports :
16 ...
17 (II) LoadModule: "mouse"
18 (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
19 (II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
20 compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.5.0
21 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
22 ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
23 ...
24 (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
25 ...
26 (**) Option "Protocol" "auto"
27 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
28 (II) Mouse0: Setting mouse protocol to "ExplorerPS/2"
29 (**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
30 (**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto"
31 (**) Option "CorePointer"
32 (**) Mouse0: always reports core events
33 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
34 (==) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
35 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
36 (**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7
37 (**) Mouse0: Buttons: 11
38 (**) Mouse0: Sensitivity: 1
39 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
40 (**) Mouse0: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
41 (**) Mouse0: (accel) acceleration profile 0
42 (II) Mouse0: Setting mouse protocol to "ExplorerPS/2"
43 (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
44 ...
45
46 The machine doesn't respond to mouse movements.
47
48 Can anyone suggest what I'm missing ?
49 Eg do I need to install 'evdev' ?
50
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[gentoo-user] Re: mouse problem with old machine walt <w41ter@×××××.com>