[Gllug] Newbie problem: Optical USB mouse.

[Thom May]

* Michael Gabriel (mike at globe.net.nz) wrote :
> 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.
Personally I find hotplug rocks for this sort of thing.
apt-get install hotplug, plug your mouse in, watch it work (hopefully).
-Thom

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