[Techtalk] Logitech PS/2 mouse under 2.6

[Bud]

Try modprobing hid
# modprobe hid

Bud

On Tuesday 24 February 2004 4:34, Mary wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm struggling a bit to get my optical Logitech wheel mouse working
> under Linux 2.6. It simply doesn't work -- X shows a mouse pointer but I
> can't move the mouse. The mouse works fine under a 2.4 kernel and under
> Windows 2000.
>
> Details:
>
>  Distro: Debian unstable, all up to date (unless the Australian mirrors
>  are behind)
>
>  Kernel: 2.6.2 (Debian build 2.6.2-1-686)
>
>  /proc/bus/input/devices shows:
>     I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0002 Product=0005 Version=0055
>     N: Name="ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse"
>     P: Phys=isa0060/serio1/input0
>     H: Handlers=
>     B: EV=7
>     B: KEY=70000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
>     B: REL=103
>
> I've successfully modprobed the psmouse module, the dmesg output was:
>
> input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
>
> However, neither /dev/psaux or /dev/input/mice exist (XFree gives a "no
> such device" error message).
>
> Here's the relevant section of my XF86Config-4 (I'm not using debconf to
> manage it because I'm using Xinerama):
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
> 	Driver		"mouse"
> 	Option		"CorePointer"
> 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
> 	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
> 	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
> 	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
> EndSection
>
> I've also tried setting the Device to be "/dev/psaux" and the Protocol
> to be "ExplorerPS/2".
>
> -Mary
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