Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.12
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Sat Oct 09 1999 - 21:06:50 MDT
Hmmm.... seeing as though we know these mice work.. perhaps its something
goofy with the USB cards (even though the keyboard works).
Do you have access to any other USB mice that you could perhaps try?
On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, jingai wrote:
> >We have Contour mice running on most of our machines on this kernel
> >I haven't yet provided a new mouseconfig program.. so for the time
> >being... run mouseconfig and select "Microsoft IntelliMouse (PS/2)"
> >(this is the type of mouse that usb mice should be set to)..
>
> I did this. Just so you know, I have a UMAX S900 with an Entrega 4-port
> USB card (I also tried it with a Belkin BusPort card).
>
> >However, since you're using mouseconfig that shipped with 1.1 that just
> >sets things up for the old USB system, you'll need to remove /dev/mouse
> >and make sure things are setup as follows:
> >
> >/dev/mouse is a symlink to /dev/usbmouse
> >/dev/usbmouse is a symlink to /dev/hidbp-mse-0
> >
> >After you've done this, restart gpm or X.. and your mouse should work!
>
> I did this too. Trouble is, the OHCI driver doesn't register mouse
> clicks/movement. It registers key presses fine, though. This is
> basically what I am doing to test it: Click the mouse buttons a few
> times, and then I do a procinfo. The number doesn't increase, but it
> does increase when I press keys on the USB keyboard. I had exactly the
> same behavior with the Belkin card.
>
> FWIW, you may want to put this on your FAQ: With the UMAX S900 (and
> possibly other Macs with two PCI buses), you have to place the USB card
> in one of the first three slots (on the bus 0). The driver doesn't like
> recognize anything but the card itself if it's placed in one of the last
> three slots (bus 1). This is actually what made it work -- it just so
> happened that I had also tried the new kernel you posted simultaneously..
> however, my 2.3.19 kernel and my own hacked-up 2.2.12 kernel both work
> as well, with the exception of the mouse.
>
> Any ideas? (BTW, the mouse and keyboard work fine in MacOS, so nothing
> is wrong with them, or the card)
>
> -jingai
>
Dan
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