Mouse problems

Alexander Apprich a.apprich at science-computing.de
Thu Jan 8 13:58:59 UTC 2004


Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>Roger Grosswiler wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a compaq proliant and always the same problem. my mouse is not
>>>working. as it never worked on the builting ps/2-port i installed a usb
>>>->
>>>ps/2-adaptor (HID) . this was working fine, until i had to reinstall my
>>>server. since then: doesn't work at all. i indicated also pci=bios-irq
>>>for
>>>a working mouse....
>>>
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>what is the output from /sbin/lsmod? There should be the following
>>modules for a USB Mouse
>>
>>mousedev                5556   3
>>hid                    24676   0 (unused)
>>input                   5760   0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
>>usb-uhci               26316   0 (unused)
>>usbcore                78176   1 [hid usb-uhci]
>>
>>To me your XF86Config looks fine. I had similar problems on RH8/9
>>because of missing modules like HID.
>>
>>
>>>Configuration:
>>>--------------------
>>>ps/2-mouse (generic, 2-button) connected to a port on the
>>>usb-hid-interface.
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>Alex
>>
> 
> [root at morpheus root]# /sbin/lsmod
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> parport_pc             19076   1  (autoclean)
> lp                      9060   0  (autoclean)
> parport                37056   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
> autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> tlan                   31836   1
> floppy                 58012   0  (autoclean)
> sg                     36492   0  (autoclean)
> sr_mod                 18168   0  (autoclean)
> microcode               4700   0  (autoclean)
> ide-scsi               12208   0
> ide-cd                 35776   0
> cdrom                  33728   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
> printer                 8960   0
> scanner                12056   0  (unused)
> keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
> hid                    24708   0  (unused)
> usb-ohci               21512   0  (unused)
> usbcore                79168   1  [printer scanner hid usb-ohci]
> mousedev                5556   2  (autoclean)
> input                   5888   0  (autoclean) [keybdev hid mousedev]
> ext3                   71300   2
> jbd                    52084   2  [ext3]
> sym53c8xx              68112   5
> sd_mod                 13708  10
> scsi_mod              108104   5  [sg sr_mod ide-scsi sym53c8xx sd_mod]
> 
> ....seems to look good.....i have also connected the keyboard on the
> hid-interface, and this works fine....its just the mouse....as it is a
> very old machine, i installed fedora with pci=bios-irq, which worked fine,
> when i installed this machine for the first time...

Okay, what happens when you disconnect and reconnect the mouse?
Please check it with dmesg | tail -n 20 when you removed the mouse
and when you reconnect it.

> 
> thx anyway, was an idea, or perhaps i have overseen something..?
> Roger

Alex
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