razafi@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I installed the kubuntu 7.10 on the Dell latitude D600.
> Everything is working fine, except, I bought a new USB
> wired optical mouse and pluged it on and nothing happening ...
> Seems that the mouse is not recognized by the system.
> When I move the mouse, nothing on screen.
> Checked already the bios and USB Emulation is enabled.
>
> The optical light under the mouse is on too.
> It is generic USB mouse ...
>
> Any suggestion will be welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
> Abdon.

What device is in your xorg.config for the mouse? I think that
/dev/input/event* should work automatically, otherwise here's my
usb def:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USBMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
# Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

IIRC, it will only work if it's plugged in when X starts.

Jerry

Thanks Jeff for your reply ...

I tried to configure as you suggested without
any success. The mouse is NOT still working.

Any hint will be welcomed.
Don.

See the attached files :
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/var/log/Xorg.0.log


------------------------- xorg.conf

....
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USBMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
# Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

....


------------------------- Xorg.0.log
X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Linux Ubuntu (xorg-server
2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12ubuntu8.3)
Current Operating System: Linux dell 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb
12 07:42:25 UTC 2008 i686
Build Date: 18 January 2008
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Mar 23 15:51:21 2008
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
(**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
(**) | |-->Monitor "Generic Monitor"
(**) | |-->Device "ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL
9000]"
(**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
(**) |-->Input Device "Configured Mouse"
(**) |-->Input Device "Synaptics Touchpad"
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
Entry deleted from font path.
(==) FontPath set to:
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,

....

(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input//mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.2.1
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7

....

(**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Configured Mouse: Core Pointer
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
(**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5
(**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 9
(**) Configured Mouse: Sensitivity: 1
Atom 4, CARD32 4, unsigned long 4
(II) Synaptics touchpad driver version 0.14.6 (1406)
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event4
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
(**) Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
(**) Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
(**) Synaptics Touchpad: always reports core events
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Synaptics Touchpad" (type:
MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type:
MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type:
KEYBOARD)
Synaptics DeviceInit called
SynapticsCtrl called.
(II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Synaptics DeviceOn called
(--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event4
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
(--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
enable montype: 2

....

Don staggered into the Black Sun and said:
> I tried to configure as you suggested without any success. The mouse
> is [still NOT] working.
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
> Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"

/dev/input/mice is a repeater device that reports all events for all
connected mouse devices. This should've worked unless your USB mouse is
speaking a non-IMPS/2 protocol or the usbhid module hasn't been loaded.
See if that's been loaded with "lsmod | grep hid".

> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
> Driver "synaptics"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Interesting. Does the touchpad work?

> Identifier "USBMouse"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"

Does this device file exist? Take a look. That's an old-school device
name; modern input devices are under /dev/input. Take a look in that
dir and see what you find. You should have one mouseN file in there for
each mouse-like input device, unless you're not using udev. You should
be using udev.

> (**) Configured Mouse: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
> (**) Configured Mouse: Protocol: "ImPS/2"
> (--) Synaptics Touchpad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event4
> (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event4"
> (--) Synaptics Touchpad touchpad found
[snip]

There's nothing about the mouse with identifier USBMouse in the logfile
snippets you quoted. Either the device file doesn't exist, or you don't
have USBMouse in your ServerLayout, or something else is going on.

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