I had to switch to USB mice/keyboards because my one of my cats pulled my PS/2 connections out so hard that the sockets were loosened, and no longer work.
When I first tried a USB mouse with Linux, I ran into this problem, and the solution was to load a bewildering number (five?) of kernel modules. I won't pretend to understand why there are so many, and it doesn't seem to matter what order to load them (other than kernel object-file dependencies), but here's what I have currently loaded: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon Jul 15 11:47):/home/tim$ sudo lsmod Module Size Used by Tainted: PF loop 8336 3 (autoclean) mousedev 3904 1 usbmouse 1792 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21860 0 (unused) input 3168 0 [mousedev usbmouse] usbcore 28832 0 [usbmouse usb-uhci] On my work machine (nearly identical, except that my PS/2 ports are not damaged), I found I was able to use both a PS/2 and a USB mouse in the same X session (multiple InputDevice sections in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, one for /dev/psaux and another for /dev/input/mice). One is a wheel mouse, and the other is a plain-3 button. I don't like the way the wheel feels when you try to use it as a middle button, so I do switch off sometimes. Tim Timothy L. Jones - [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Software/SysEng III - ET/Query Apps Group UNIX IS user friendly; it's just picky about who its friends are -----Original Message----- From: Tomas Pospisek's Mailing Lists [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 11:42 AM To: Eric Aumont Cc: debian-kde Subject: Re: problem starting kde On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Eric Aumont wrote: > (EE) xf860OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such file or directory. Either you have the wrong permissions on /dev/input/mice (I guess not that would give you a different error message), or you don't have the driver for it in the kernel, or you don't have the module loaded that provides the driver. Have a look at your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, look at the Mouse section and put /dev/psaux there. I guess, *t ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tomas Pospisek SourcePole - Linux & Open Source Solutions http://sourcepole.ch Elestastrasse 18, 7310 Bad Ragaz, Switzerland Tel: +41 (81) 330 77 11 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]