[Gllug] Newbie problem: Optical USB mouse.

[Michael Gabriel]

Hi all,

    I'm have just bought a USB optical mouse and I can't seem to make it
work.I can see the device in USB Viewer but that's as far as I get. I am
new to Linux/Debian so it might just be a simple problem.

I've read that when you cat /dev/input/mice and move the mouse, one
should see characters appearing but in my case nothing happens.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,

Michael.

Background info:

Mouse: Swann Opti Pro USB Optical Trackball Scroller Mouse.
Kernel:  2.4.18-k7.   With Debian
Modules I've tried to load: usbcore, usb-uhci uhci.

#cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers

         usbdevfs
         hub
 96-111: hiddev
         hid


#cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d800
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 2
B:  Alloc=104/900 us (12%), #Int=  2, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d400
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  2 Spd=12  MxCh= 4
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=050f ProdID=0003 Rev= 1.00
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr=100mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   1 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#=  3 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=04b4 ProdID=aef6 Rev= 0.01
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=a0 MxPwr= 26mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID  ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=hid
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   4 Ivl= 10ms

Changes I have made to XF86Config-4:
************************************

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "Anaconda Configured"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "USBmouse" "AlwaysCore"     <----- this line
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option      "Buttons"   "5"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"                        <-- added this paragraph
        Identifier  "USBmouse"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Buttons"      "5"
#        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection
*****************************************************
#lsmod

Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
keybdev                 1696   0  (unused)
usb-uhci               21508   0  (unused)
tdfx                   35480   1 
mousedev                3904   1 
hid                    19200   0  (unused)
usbcore                49696   1  [usb-uhci hid]
input                   3424   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
pcmcia_core            39648   0 
nls_cp437               4384   2  (autoclean)
msdos                   4956   1  (autoclean)
fat                    29752   0  (autoclean) [msdos]
snd-ac97-codec         23236   0  (unused)
snd                    25704   0  [snd-ac97-codec]
via82cxxx_audio        18432   0 
uart401                 6176   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
ac97_codec              9696   0  [via82cxxx_audio]
sound                  54540   0  [via82cxxx_audio uart401]
soundcore               3684   5  [snd via82cxxx_audio sound]
8139too                14688   1 
mii                     1120   0  [8139too]
af_packet              11848   0  (unused)
rtc                     5592   0  (autoclean)
unix                   13636 193  (autoclean)
ide-disk                6816   3  (autoclean)
ide-probe-mod           8096   0  (autoclean)
ide-mod               131404   3  (autoclean) [ide-disk ide-probe-mod]
ext2                   30848   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ext3                   57248   1  (autoclean)
jbd                    35640   1  (autoclean) [ext3]

************************************************************

output from USB Viewer:
***********************

mouse
Speed: 1.5Mb/s (low)
USB Version:  1.10
Device Class: 00(>ifc )
Device Subclass: 00
Device Protocol: 00
Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8
Number of Configurations: 1
Vendor Id: 04b4
Product Id: aef6
Revision Number:  0.01

Config Number: 1
        Number of Interfaces: 1
        Attributes: a0
        MaxPower Needed:  26mA

        Interface Number: 0
                Name: hid
                Alternate Number: 0
                Class: 03(HID  ) 
                Sub Class: 1
                Protocol: 2
                Number of Endpoints: 1

                        Endpoint Address: 81
                        Direction: in
                        Attribute: 3
                        Type: Int.
                        Max Packet Size: 4
                        Interval:  10ms


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