On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote: > No progress yesterday. Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config > & installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 : > I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works. > Then I started looking a Udev in this machine to see what mb missing there. > Back in the new machine, I was preparing to remerge -evdev- etc > & casually checked /dev/input : mouse0 was there ! > I logged in as user, 'startx' & the mouse worked in Fluxbox ! > -- Xorg.log had found a Logitech mouse at /dev/input/event3 using evdev. > Well, perhaps it was some setting which took effect after the reboot. > > Well, no, it wasn't. When I had switched off & was replugging connections, > I found that I'd plugged the mouse into a different USB slot : > the previous one -- similar to the one in this machine -- was 2.0/1.1 , > the new one which works is 3.0/2.0 . NB Mageia + SystemRescue both > find the mouse in the former place, but my new Gentoo only in the latter. > The new mobo is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ; this one is an ASUS P5G41T-M . > > Further comments are very welcome. > > -- > ========================,,============================================ > SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb > ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto > TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca > >
Look at which host controller interfaces you have enabled. IIRC USB-3.0 required a new one - probably XHCI but I don't really remember. HTH, Mark mark@slinky ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep HCI CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y # CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM is not set # CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI is not set CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_XHCI=y CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y # CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD_DEBUGGING is not set CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y # CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT is not set # CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED is not set CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y # CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM is not set # CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD_PLATFORM is not set # CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC is not set # CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO is not set CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y # CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set mark@slinky ~ $
