[ale] Linux 2.4 and usb mice

[Tejus Parikh]

Thanks!  That setup sounds an awful lot like my box.  Getting 2.6 
working would be the ideal solution.

As for the 2.4 kernel, I think I have isolated what the problem is, but 
I have no idea how to fix it.  I got a standard usb mouse to work by 
turning off the bios settings about usb mice and PnP.  However, I can't 
get this particular wireless mouse to work because I believe the 
reciever can multiplex between teh keyboard (which I don't have) and 
the mouse.  The 2.4 machine never tries to initalize the mouse part.  
When I plugged in the mouse to a 2.6 computer, I got the following 
output in /var/log/messages:

Dec 28 10:28:18 desmond kernel: ohci_hcd 0000:00:02.1: wakeup
Dec 28 10:28:18 desmond kernel: usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using 
address 10
Dec 28 10:28:18 desmond kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Gyration 
Gyration RF Technology Receiver] on usb-0000:00:02.1-2Dec 28 10:28:18 
desmond input.agent[15454]: ... no modules for INPUT product 3/c16/2/150
Dec 28 10:28:18 desmond input.agent[15476]: ... no modules for INPUT product
Dec 28 10:28:18 desmond input.agent[15501]: ... no modules for INPUT 
product 3/c16/2/150
Dec 28 10:28:18 desmond kernel: input: USB HID v1.20 Mouse [Gyration 
Gyration RF Technology Receiver] on usb-0000:00:02.1-2
Dec 28 10:28:19 desmond udev[15567]: configured rule in 
'/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 55 applied, 'mouse1' becomes 
'input/%k'
Dec 28 10:28:19 desmond udev[15567]: creating device node '/dev/input/mouse1'



This is what I see in the 2.4 machine when I plug in the adapter reciever:

Dec 28 10:28:25 dizzy kernel: ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] 
  MMIO=[ee000000-ee0007ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
Dec 28 10:28:26 dizzy kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:10.2-1, assigned 
address 2
Dec 28 10:28:29 dizzy kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
Dec 28 10:28:29 dizzy kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hid
Dec 28 10:28:54 dizzy kernel: input,hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard 
[Gyration Gyration RF Technology Receiver] on usb4:2.0
Dec 28 10:28:59 dizzy kernel: hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech 
Pavlik <vojtech at suse.cz>
Dec 28 10:28:59 dizzy kernel: hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Dec 28 10:28:59 dizzy kernel: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
Dec 28 10:29:16 dizzy logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug start (exiting script)

Notice how I never get that second line about "USB HID v1.20 Mouse."  I 
have no idea where to begin fixing this.


Thanks everyone for the help.
Tejus

Quoting Michael Trausch <fd0man at gmail.com>:


>
> Can't say as I can tell you what's up with 2.4 & USB, since I haven't
> used that combination in particular.  However, I can tell you that the
> board that I have which has an all VIA based setup works pretty
> good... it's a Syntax board with an AMD Duron 1.8 GHz CPU.  However,
> the ALSA mixer settings are a bit messed up.  The "master," well,
> isn't.  It's actually a strange combination of PCM and various other
> mixers.  I'm working on a project in Windows at the moment (bleh), but
> the next time I boot into Linux I can pull up the specs and show you
> the mixer levels that work for my setup, and you can see if maybe
> that's your VIA audio problem, there.
>
>  Later,
>  Mike
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