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#1 2005-12-25 08:08:55
- JesseC
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No working mouse devices?
I've tried /dev/psaux, /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0 in my xorg.conf and none of them work. So I took it a step further and used the cat command on each of them to see if I got any output. None.
Why is my mouse not working? It's just a regular PS/2 mouse.
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#2 2005-12-25 10:58:33
- JGC
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Re: No working mouse devices?
I don't know how mouse support in the kernels is these days, but try running "modprobe psmouse" to load the PS/2 module.
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#3 2005-12-25 17:47:57
- Gullible Jones
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Re: No working mouse devices?
Try the ImPS/2 protocol.
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#4 2005-12-27 13:23:14
- JesseC
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Re: No working mouse devices?
I tried IMPS/2 mouse, auto, etc. I also installed Debian and I got the exact same problem so I'm pulling my hair out. I eventually tried a USB mouse instead and worked perfectly fine. I have absolutely no idea why this is not working. I even tried using a kernel I compiled myself and made sure it had the proper mouse modules.
Also looking back on this I think it might be a Hardware issue rather then a Desktop Environments issue.
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#5 2006-01-02 01:37:30
- elasticdog
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Re: No working mouse devices?
Not sure if it's at all related, but I just did a pretty good number of upgrades (including the new initrd kernel) and upon reboot my mouse wasn't woking at all and thus prevented X from loading. I had to add the proper module (in my case <code>evdev</code>) to my Modules list under <code>rc.conf</code> before it started working again. In your case, since it's just a basic mouse that probably isn't the issue, but might be something similar?
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#6 2006-01-03 20:40:55
- Mr.Elendig
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Re: No working mouse devices?
Have you switched fora usb mouse to a ps/2 one?
I did, and I had to disable the usb mouse suport in bios to get it working.
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#7 2006-01-04 20:32:35
- Mr.Elendig
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Re: No working mouse devices?
Get myself a new rig, and innstalled from a 7.0.1 rc1 iso.
No luck in getting the mouse to work here now. 
I'm using an usb mouse btw.
edit: silly me, forgot to add mod_autoload to rc.conf........... 
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