I'm running Redhat Linux 6.2 and I have a USB mouse and keyboard. I've gotten the
keyboard to work, but not the mouse. Here's the information. Does anyone have any
suggestions?
I successfully installed the kernel update to 2.3.51. I also tried all of this with
2.2.14 using the USB back-port patch. All the stuff below is straight out of the HOWTO.
I enabled only the essential USB entries (UHCI Hub, mouse, keyboard) with
menuconfig and installed the kernel. The backport requires you to make your
own USB device entries so for 2.2.14 I did the following:
mkdir /dev/usb
mknod /dev/usb/usbmouse0 13 32
In both, I also mounted the USB file system:
mount -t usbdevfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb
This was somewhat successful. Inspecting /proc/interrupts revealed that the
kernel sensed input from both the keyboard and the mouse. However, the mouse
was still not available as a device. I modified the XF86Config file to point
it to the USB mouse, but it signaled an error that the device didn't exist.
I also tried 'cat /dev/usb/usbmouse0' and the system returned the error that
the device didn't exist.
What's up with that?
"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
-Mahatma Gandhi
Geoffrey Garen
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. USA
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