Again with the great suggestions of several people, I got the mouse to work.
Bottom line: I completely misunderstood the instructions in the BLFS book on installing Cups. A note on kernel configuration says: "There is a conflict between the Cups libusb backend and the usblp kernel driver. If you want to use Cups with libusb, do not enable USB Printer support in your kernel." I somehow managed to misinterpret this as not to compile ANY kernel USB modules. So I compiled the modules that seem right for my hardware, as shown by lspci: modules that mention "EHCI" and "XHCI". I also added whatever modules mention "OHCI". Checking the .config file after selecting the various USB-related features, I see that there are a bunch of variables containing those names, but nothing as simple as "CONFIG_OHCI=y". I had already compiled "evdev". The LFS book states not to compile kernel modules for both OHCI and UHCI, so I didn't. But a variable with UHCI in its name has =y anyway. ?? I also carefully went back over the LFS book's instructions on setting up the mouse, and rechecked that all the files are set up properly. /etc/sysconfig/mouse ended up like this: ####### MDEVICE="/dev/input/mice" PROTOCOL="imps2" GPMOPTS="" ####### I tried the program mouse-test in the console window but after 15 minutes it had not returned, so I killed it. The GPM daemon works, and X appears to be working fine with the mouse. The files /dev/input/mice and /dev/input/mouse0 now exist. The first one apparently is created BEFORE you fire up linux, while you're compiling the kernel (just speculating here), but the latter does not show up until after you fire up linux and get a working mouse. I didn't know that until now. Again thanks! Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
