On 01/08/2015 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 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' ?
IIUC evdev has been the officially endorsed way for several years and Xorg uses it by default if it's installed. I'd try installing evdev and remove xf86-input-mice and also xf86-input-keyboard if you're using it.
