About to pee on the box USB mouse has never worked

[aarkvard]

Both Gentoox and the Xebian live CD don't see my wired usb mouse.

The mouse's led is on so it IS recieving power, but rebooting, hot plugging, and installing Gentoox with the mouse plugged in does not find it.

I have also tried:

modprobe usbmouse

with the Xebian live and the command completes but nothing changes. The mouse is just a plain Logitech Optical USB mouse. No hub.

If anyone knows how to make this work, I won't pee on my xbox.

[vplayer]

try

dmesg | grep -i usb

and see whether it showsup

hth

[aarkvard]

That appears to be a negative. I also tried the "modprobe usbmouse" on Gentoox this time and it says it can't locate the module. I see a file in my /dev folder called usbmouse, is that not it?


Results of "dmesg | grep -i usb" :

p50 p51 p52 p53 p54 p55<6>usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc5e7b000, IRQ 1
host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc5e7d000, IRQ 9
host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, nVidia Corporation nForce USB Controller (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
usb.c: registered new driver xpad
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1.3, assigned address 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1.3.1, assigned address 4

[aarkvard]

Bladder so full... can't hold it much longer...

[nobspangle]

if you do
cat /dev/usbmouse
then move your mouse around you should get a load of garbage on your screen, if not then that's not your mouse.

[aarkvard]

Thanks, I'll give it a shot and see what happens.