[K12OSN] [FINALLY SOLVED!] Odd wireless mouse behaviour

[Sudev Barar]

> On 13/12/06, Sudev Barar <sbarar at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I recently got Microsoft (I know not the best names here but they do
> > sell decent hardware also) wireless keyboard mouse. This is a model
> > with only one USB plug on the transmitter rather than traditional two
> > plugs (one for keyboard and one for mouse). I just plug it in and
> > booted the terminal and thing works BUT only about once in four
> > attempts!
>
> Okay this is what I have done so far and  it seems to work...
>
> I noticed on study of /var/log/messages that wehenever hiddev driver
> got loaded before usbmouse driver the mouse behaves normally. If the
> usbmouse driver gets loaded first then mouse gets stuck. For the
> curious I am giving two sequences of thin client boot below for
> details the first one is when mouse fails and the second one when it
> works.
>
> To force HIDDEV to load before USBMOUSE I edited the file
> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.usb and modified the 11th line from:
>
>      for module in keybdev mousedev input usbmouse usbkbd
>
> chnged to:
>
>      for module in usbhid hiddev keybdev mousedev input usbmouse usbkbd
>
> This way usbhid drivers gets loaded and then hiddev driver gets loaded
> and then usbmouse and then usbkbd. Without loading USBHID the HIDDEV
> does not work. And all these are part of USBCORE.
>

The logic / description remains same but instead of editing
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.usb I had to finally edit
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.sysinit I added the two modules to line#128 and
achieved the desired sequence of driver loading and got my mouse
working.

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Regards,
Sudev Barar