I want to get my oldest machine, built 2003, to work :
it wakes up ok, but it doesn't recognise my mouse.
My memory is that there was a change in mice sometimes since 2003
& that I needed to use one of the earlier kind for this machine ;
unfortunately, I've discarded those mice long ago.
I've been trying to get it to work with a USB mouse,
making step-by-step changes in a 4-year-old Gentoo installation :
(1) I enabled USB_HID in the kernel + OHCI + EHCI ;
(2) I remerged xf86-input-mice xorg-server nvidia-drivers ;
(3) /dev/input/mice exists ;
(4) /var/log/syslog reports :
"mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice" ;
(5) /var/log/Xorg.0.log reports :
...
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/mouse_drv.so
(II) Module mouse: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
compiled for 1.7.7, module version = 1.5.0
Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 7.0
...
(==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
...
(**) Option "Protocol" "auto"
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(II) Mouse0: Setting mouse protocol to "ExplorerPS/2"
(**) Mouse0: Device: "/dev/input/mice"
(**) Mouse0: Protocol: "auto"
(**) Option "CorePointer"
(**) Mouse0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
(==) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 11
(**) Mouse0: Sensitivity: 1
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(**) Mouse0: (accel) keeping acceleration scheme 1
(**) Mouse0: (accel) acceleration profile 0
(II) Mouse0: Setting mouse protocol to "ExplorerPS/2"
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
...
The machine doesn't respond to mouse movements.
Can anyone suggest what I'm missing ?
Eg do I need to install 'evdev' ?
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