Ehlo. :-)
Quite recently I bought a usb mouse, when my old PS/2 Genius broke down.
I decided to buy a cordless mouse, for the sake of convenience.
Unfortunately, they don't seem to make ps/2 mice with all those cool
features, so I was forced to choose a usb model. It is a Media-Tech
Optix RF Pro, but obviously that's just a name given to it by Media-Tech
after purchasing its electronics from someone else, acrox probably (see
below what makes me think so). I figured - usb devices have a common
protocol (was I mistaken?) so what bad can happen - it probably will run
under Linux. The mouse has 5 buttons and a bidirectional scroll in a
form similar to a trackball. At first I used the included ps/2 converter
as to avoid any possible problems with usb, but that caused problems -
the mouse would often remain undetected during bootup so it didn't work
under Linux OR Win. A soft reboot almost always helped. So what I do now
is wait for LILO to appear, then do ^-M-Del (shows ESCD
update....success), wait for LILO again and boot into whatever I wish
and the mouse works. Quite irritating though, because the mouse has a
tendency towards jumping into that uninitialized mode during other
reboots sometimes. So I tried to plug it into my usb port. Well, my
darkest fears turned out to be the truth. Win works just fine with it
(although I am not sure if that'd be the case if I had not installed the
drivers) but I can't get it to work under Linux. At first I tried it
with 2.4.22, all necessary modules included, but got absolutely no
output from /dev/input/mice, nor did gpm or X work. Then I converted to
2.6.3 (and a terrible pain this is, took a lot of effort), and surprise,
it still doesn't work. Below are the logs. I have compiled in the
following modules:
Support for USB, EHCI HCD, UHCI HCD, USB Human Interface Device, HID input
layer (yes, I also have CONFIG_INPUT=y)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lspci -v
[...]
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) (prog-if 00
[UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 3
I/O ports at dc00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dmesg
[...]
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
ehci_hcd: block sizes: qh 128 qtd 96 itd 192 sitd 64
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 3, io base 0000d800
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: detected 2 ports
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: root hub device address 1
usb usb1: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
drivers/usb/core/message.c: USB device number 1 default language ID 0x409
usb usb1: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.3 uhci_hcd
usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:07.2
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: usb_hotplug
usb usb1: registering 1-0:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: usb_hotplug
hub 1-0:1.0: usb_probe_interface
hub 1-0:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hub 1-0:1.0: standalone hub
hub 1-0:1.0: ganged power switching
hub 1-0:1.0: global over-current protection
hub 1-0:1.0: Port indicators are not supported
hub 1-0:1.0: power on to power good time: 2ms
hub 1-0:1.0: hub controller current requirement: 0mA
hub 1-0:1.0: local power source is good
hub 1-0:1.0: no over-current condition exists
hub 1-0:1.0: enabling power on all ports
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 3, io base 0000dc00
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: detected 2 ports
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: root hub device address 1
usb usb2: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
drivers/usb/core/message.c: USB device number 1 default language ID 0x409
usb usb2: Product: UHCI Host Controller
usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 2.6.3 uhci_hcd
usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:07.3
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: usb_hotplug
usb usb2: registering 2-0:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: usb_hotplug
hub 2-0:1.0: usb_probe_interface
hub 2-0:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hub 2-0:1.0: standalone hub
hub 2-0:1.0: ganged power switching
hub 2-0:1.0: global over-current protection
hub 2-0:1.0: Port indicators are not supported
hub 2-0:1.0: power on to power good time: 2ms
hub 2-0:1.0: hub controller current requirement: 0mA
hub 2-0:1.0: local power source is good
hub 2-0:1.0: no over-current condition exists
hub 2-0:1.0: enabling power on all ports
hub 1-0:1.0: port 1, status 100, change 3, 12 Mb/s
hub 1-0:1.0: port 2, status 100, change 3, 12 Mb/s
hub 2-0:1.0: port 1, status 100, change 3, 12 Mb/s
hub 2-0:1.0: port 2, status 100, change 3, 12 Mb/s
hub 1-0:1.0: port 1 enable change, status 100
hub 1-0:1.0: port 2 enable change, status 100
hub 2-0:1.0: port 1 enable change, status 100
hub 2-0:1.0: port 2 enable change, status 100
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: d800: suspend_hc
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: dc00: suspend_hc
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lsmod
[...]
hid 32896 0
uhci_hcd 32972 0
ehci_hcd 37828 0
usbcore 114652 5 hid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
evdev 9536 0
Now, I insert my mouse into any USB port...
usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using address 2
usb 1-1: Product: Acrox RF Ball Mouse
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Acrox
[cf01d270] link (0f01d1b2) element (0f140080)
Element != First TD
0: [cf140040] link (0f140080) e3 LS Length=7 MaxLen=7 DT0 EndPt=0
Dev=2, PID=2d(SETUP) (buf=0ef09060)
1: [cf140080] link (0f1400c0) e3 LS Stalled Babble Length=0 MaxLen=0
DT1 EndPt=0 Dev=2, PID=69(IN) (buf=0ef09080)
2: [cf1400c0] link (00000001) e3 LS IOC Active Length=0 MaxLen=7ff DT1
EndPt=0 Dev=2, PID=e1(OUT) (buf=00000000)
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: ctrl urb status -75 received
usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0out
All seems to be working fine, maybe except for the last line, of which
significance I am not quite sure. But cat on /dev/input/mouse0 or
/dev/input/mice returns nothing after moving the mouse, so no wonder gpm
and X don't work. A friend suggested that this could be due to a wrong
kernel table entry that associates the device's id with a type and driver.
It seemed to work for him to correct this table for a usb device he
couldn't get to work (not a mouse anyway). He also suggested to try with
a recent kernel first, so I did. Problem is I don't know where those
tables can be found, what to look for, and if this could be the case.
I'd greatly appreciate any help.
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices gives just entries for the usb hubs. However,
in /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-1 i found something which I think refers to my
mouse. The files idVendor and idProduct contain 04b4 and 6370
respectively.
One more curious detail - when the mouse is connected via the ps/2
converter and remains uninitialzed by the bios as I boot into linux, gpm
of course doesn't work. But when I do modprobe psmouse, I get:
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1, and it works,
but I need to move the mouse a mile just to make it move a bit on the
screen. Any idea why?
Thanks,
democrux
p.s. And please don't tell me I bought a piece of crap - I already know
that. :-(
p.s.2. Where is this list's FAQ?
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