Guest TheMole Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 For some reason I can't seem to get my USB mouse working under 9.1b3. Apart from that, 9.1 looks extremely polished with the fonts ABSOLUTELY gorgeous! Anyone have any information why my USB mouse (Logitech Wireless/Optical USB) doesn't work? I've heard other reports that their mice weren't detected too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 My USB mouse was not detected either, so I ran "mousedrake", that fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arise Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Mine didn't work either..it's a Microsoft Intellimouse USB (optical). Should I go ahead with the installation and hope i can configure it later on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Mine didn't work either..it's a Microsoft Intellimouse USB (optical). Should I go ahead with the installation and hope i can configure it later on? Same mouse as me, as I said above, mousedrake fixed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arise Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 anon, it doesn't work no matter how i try...it won't recognize it. worst of all, i managed to run the xserver using the geforce generic (fbdev) device. It only does 800x600.... videocard is a GF4 Ti4200, for which i cannot install any nvidia drivers because THERE ARE NO KERNEL SOURCES TO BE FOUND !!!!!! WHERE ARE THEY in beta3, on which CD and where is the install path...because in /usr/src/ there is NOTHING...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 Welcome to the wonderful world of beta testing. The kernel source was on CD3 in 9.0 for lack of room and there is no CD3 for the betas yet, but it is available as a download from here: ftp://ftp.uninett.no/linux/Mandrake/Mandr...ke/RPMS.cooker/ . Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arise Posted February 5, 2003 Report Share Posted February 5, 2003 no 3rd CD for beta3? are you sure? cos i got 3 ISOs... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest arise Posted February 6, 2003 Report Share Posted February 6, 2003 OK i tried it all....with no success.... i managed to get the nvidia drivers compiled successfuly from SRPMs, installed also OK, but can't get XFree to run on anything except FBDEV mode @ 800x600 with no mouse... Sorry but my Beta3 adventure has to end here...i've seen enough crap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest c_m_f Posted February 7, 2003 Report Share Posted February 7, 2003 i had the same mouse prob with mdk 9.0, but i got a usb/ps2 converotr so i put it in ps2, and changed it to the usb option and then plugged it in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Now that I've upgraded my kernel to 2.4.19-24 I too have lost my logitech USB mouse. After starting up, I have to run mousedrake and then restart the X server whereas I then have mouse services. On reboot, an error message about not finding /dev/usbmouse appears when it is trying to start mouse services. Running mousedrake just fixes it until I reboot. I rebuilt my kernel from source and made sure my USB options were included. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Some more info on this. After my initial reboot, the symbolic link /dev/usbmouse does exist. It's suppose to point to the /dev/input/mice device. That, however, doesn't exist.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 16, 2003 Report Share Posted February 16, 2003 Ok, problem solved, my USB mouse is now working.. I ended up recompiling the kernel with "USB HIDBP Mouse support" turned off this time. Go the hint from this link.. http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/usbmouse.txt Thanks to myself for figuring out my own problem *goofy grin* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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