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Hello group,

I have a Dell Dimension 8300 computer and the mouse is an USB optical
logitech mouse with Dell printed on it.
My Gentoo installation works splendid except for my mousewheel. I can't make
it to work.
The mouse is attached to USB and not to PS/2 with a converter. I also use
the Gentoo sources and tried the Pfeifer sources with the same problem

My XF86Config looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
# Option "Resolution" "100"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection


When I use protocol IMPS/2 than my mouse flips and stays at the bottom left
of the screen. An lsmod gives the listing at the bottom of this post. If I
insmod usb-uhci, uhci or usb-ohci, then my mouse stops responding entirely.
I looked at the Gentoo forums but they do not provide an answer to this
(common?) problem. Does someone in here knows what is happening in my
system?

Thanks very much

Chris

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
snd-mixer-oss 13952 0 (autoclean)
snd-intel8x0 20256 5
snd-pcm 68128 2 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 16832 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 4128 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-rawmidi 15264 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 4468 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 5648 0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 38416 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd 34080 4 [snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm
snd-timer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec]
soundcore 4580 1 [snd]
nvidia 1542784 10
mousedev 4472 0 (unused)
hid 10044 0 (unused)
input 3872 0 [mousedev]
usbcore 67488 1 [hid]
3c59x 28848 1

Hi

I use a logitech wheelmouse (MX500) on the usb-port, too
My XFree86Config looks like that:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

Even if you use USB, you can choose Protocol IMPS/2.

At last look at the different usb-driver in the kernel. Try to load uhci
and usb-ohci. I had trouble with the driver (ive choosen the wrong one
:-) ).

Karsten Rettinghausen wrote:

> Hi
>
> I use a logitech wheelmouse (MX500) on the usb-port, too
> My XFree86Config looks like that:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse0"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> EndSection
>
> Even if you use USB, you can choose Protocol IMPS/2.
>
> At last look at the different usb-driver in the kernel. Try to load uhci
> and usb-ohci. I had trouble with the driver (ive choosen the wrong one
> :-) ).

I wrote in my original post:

------ original post -------
When I use protocol IMPS/2 than my mouse flips and stays at the bottom left
of the screen. An lsmod gives the listing at the bottom of this post. If I
insmod usb-uhci, uhci or usb-ohci, then my mouse stops responding entirely.
I looked at the Gentoo forums but they do not provide an answer to this
(common?) problem. Does someone in here knows what is happening in my
system?
--------------------------------

So: IMPS/2 won't work at all
uhci, usb-uhci and usb-ohci don't do the trick => mouse stops responding

kind regards

Chris

In <bedttg$d87$1@naxos.belnet.be>, Chris_V wrote:

> Hello group,
>
> I have a Dell Dimension 8300 computer and the mouse is an USB optical
> logitech mouse with Dell printed on it.
> My Gentoo installation works splendid except for my mousewheel. I can't make
> it to work.
> The mouse is attached to USB and not to PS/2 with a converter. I also use
> the Gentoo sources and tried the Pfeifer sources with the same problem
>
> My XF86Config looks like this:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "auto"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> Option "CorePointer"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons"
> # Option "Resolution" "100"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> EndSection
>
>
> When I use protocol IMPS/2 than my mouse flips and stays at the bottom left
> of the screen. An lsmod gives the listing at the bottom of this post. If I
> insmod usb-uhci, uhci or usb-ohci, then my mouse stops responding entirely.
> I looked at the Gentoo forums but they do not provide an answer to this
> (common?) problem. Does someone in here knows what is happening in my
> system?

/dev/usbmouse isn't working -- have a look at
your module link count. Are you loading the
mouse driver with hotplug or with modules.autoload?

Does usbview show the mouse?

What happens if you boot the system, and /then/
plug the mouse in?

>>
> Thanks very much
>
> Chris

> Module Size Used by Tainted: P

[...]

> mousedev 4472 0 (unused)
> hid 10044 0 (unused)
> input 3872 0 [mousedev]
> usbcore 67488 1 [hid]
> 3c59x 28848 1

Have a look in /dev/input and /proc/bus/usb

The fact that mousdev is unused suggests that the
mouse events are getting through some other path.

Could the Dell BIOS be hooking the mouse?

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