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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:36:42
Message-Id: CAK2H+eeSYqcn==rasoNHzzMRYH2FQRWx-v_fT4uC2+SRAuJT3Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident by Philip Webb
1 On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > No progress yesterday. Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config
3 > & installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 :
4 > I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works.
5 > Then I started looking a Udev in this machine to see what mb missing there.
6 > Back in the new machine, I was preparing to remerge -evdev- etc
7 > & casually checked /dev/input : mouse0 was there !
8 > I logged in as user, 'startx' & the mouse worked in Fluxbox !
9 > -- Xorg.log had found a Logitech mouse at /dev/input/event3 using evdev.
10 > Well, perhaps it was some setting which took effect after the reboot.
11 >
12 > Well, no, it wasn't. When I had switched off & was replugging connections,
13 > I found that I'd plugged the mouse into a different USB slot :
14 > the previous one -- similar to the one in this machine -- was 2.0/1.1 ,
15 > the new one which works is 3.0/2.0 . NB Mageia + SystemRescue both
16 > find the mouse in the former place, but my new Gentoo only in the latter.
17 > The new mobo is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ; this one is an ASUS P5G41T-M .
18 >
19 > Further comments are very welcome.
20 >
21 > --
22 > ========================,,============================================
23 > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb
24 > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto
25 > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
26 >
27 >
28
29 Look at which host controller interfaces you have enabled. IIRC
30 USB-3.0 required a new one - probably XHCI but I don't really
31 remember.
32
33 HTH,
34 Mark
35
36
37 mark@slinky ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep HCI
38 CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
39 # CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM is not set
40 # CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI is not set
41 CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
42 CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y
43 CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_XHCI=y
44 CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
45 # CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD_DEBUGGING is not set
46 CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
47 # CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT is not set
48 # CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED is not set
49 CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
50 # CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM is not set
51 # CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD_PLATFORM is not set
52 # CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC is not set
53 # CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO is not set
54 CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
55 CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
56 # CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set
57 mark@slinky ~ $

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