[ale] Linux 2.4 and usb mice

[Tejus Parikh]

Thanks to all that replied.  I finally got this working with 2.6.14.4.
The older 2.6 kernel I was using earlier didn't seem to have all the
options for my sound card, but on this one, things look like they are
working great!

One Christmas present down, just a few left to go.....

Tejus

On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 10:56 -0500, Mills, John M. wrote:
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Tejus Parikh
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 10:40 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Linux 2.4 and usb mice
> 
> 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: