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Gentoo doesn't like my mouse.

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Drag0n_45

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Hello everyone. I recently installed the Gentoo distro off of the livecd that came with the november 2005 issue of Linux Magazine. I performed the install just fine, but I cant seem to get my mouse to work. It works fine off of the liveCD, when I'm in the bash prompt I can right click on certain things to copy them, etc. However when I start my kernel after the install (and have USB mouse support compiled into the kernel) it doesn't work. I Gnome so that I had X, and thenI started it, the mouse just jumped all over the screen. I tried running xorgconfig (a utility to configure different options for graphics, input, etc), and none of the other mouse options worked. Should I try compiling other mouse options into my kernel, or do I need a service running. I'm a newb when it comes to Linux so any advice at all would be great.

PS. I have a Logitech Mx-1000 mouse along with a A4Tech mouse that came with their wireless keyboard. The mouse and keybaord are both PS/2, but the Logitech mouse is USB.
 
Try using /dev/psaux in xorg.conf

If you need the mouse working on the console then do this

Code: 
rc-update add gpm default
Code: 
/etc/init.d/gpm start

You'll have to edit /etc/conf.d/gpm to use the proper dev. Prolly /dev/psaux
 
If /dev/psaux doesn't work you could also try /dev/input/mice. "/dev/psaux" is "deprecated" as the Linux kernel people like to say.
 
Yeah, it is most likely the wrong input device specified in xorg.com (/etc/X11/xorg.conf). I don't think I have ever seen it default to the right one on dozens of Gentoo installs.

Check out this xorg guide for gentoo, scroll to the mouse configuration. Good info there.
 
neo86 said:
If /dev/psaux doesn't work you could also try /dev/input/mice. "/dev/psaux" is "deprecated" as the Linux kernel people like to say.
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Reminds me of what a classmate of mine said after fighting with something: "Those bloody kernel guys don't have any idea of what 'stable' means, everything useful goes straight from experimental to deprecated".
(He managed to filter in a lot more cursing, but that was essentially his point.)

He still uses it, of course. ;)
 
nForce chipset?

Make sure you compiled OHCI USB into your kernel. It's not compiled in by default (the UHCI USB is the default).
 
ive tried coldplug - no go.

Where do I go to change my USB from UHCI or OHCI? can I type

Code: 
make menuconfig

change options in there, and then

Code: 
make && make modules_install
??

Also, I've tried the /dev/input/mice device for my mice - thats a no go as well. Ill try /dev/psaux
 
Yeah, it's the USB section of the kernel config.

If even that doesn't work you could probably try genkernel section of the install guide. It'll rebuild every single module so there's no doubt about something missing in the kernel.

Usually when I'm having install problems with hardware I load up the livecd (which uses genkernel) and then run "lsmod" to see which modules it's loaded. I google anything I don't recognize and then load the correct option into the kernel when recompiling.
 
Code: 
su
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
# modify USB section
make && make modules_install
# ls /boot/ first to see what the kernel's name is
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/ <kernel name> 
# if you use LILO:
/sbin/lilo
 
Ive tried genkernel and when I do I can't even get X to load, is says there's a problem with /dev/fb0. (a framebuffer device). So, I compiled the other way. Ill try the USB section and the other mouse option tho.
 
EDIT: Never mind, I just rerea your post. You can try it anyways, though, since it seems to be a common problem with the latest "stable" nVidia drivers. Post your xorg.conf please.

The screen blanks and the computer locks up when you start X? If so, I had a similar problems.

Unmask the latest nVidia drivers and that should solve the problem.

nano -w /etc/portage/package.keywords

add:

Code: 
media-video/nvidia-glx ~x86
media-video/nvidia-kernel ~x86
app-admin/eselect ~x86 
app-admin/eselect-opengl ~x86

emerge -C nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel && emerge nvidia-glx

I'm not sure if the following commands are necessary, but I used them again just in case:

modprobe nvidia
modules-update
opengl-update nvidia
 
well i just got my mouse to work with gentoo. I did two things:

1. Recompiled my kernel with OHCI support.
2. Changed my mouse device from /dev/input/mice to /dev/psaux

So now my mouse works. Except when gnome started up, it gave me an error with the screensaver applet and gave me two options: Delete or Dont delete. For some reason I clicked delete, and I'm not sure if the screens aver will start up. I didn't have much time to test it - im more familiar with kde anyways, but I was forced to install gnome. (thats a discussion for a later time.) Is there any way to just install the screen saver applet without reinstalling all of gentoo?
 
Drag0n_45 said:
well i just got my mouse to work with gentoo. I did two things:

1. Recompiled my kernel with OHCI support.
2. Changed my mouse device from /dev/input/mice to /dev/psaux

So now my mouse works. Except when gnome started up, it gave me an error with the screensaver applet and gave me two options: Delete or Dont delete. For some reason I clicked delete, and I'm not sure if the screens aver will start up. I didn't have much time to test it - im more familiar with kde anyways, but I was forced to install gnome. (thats a discussion for a later time.) Is there any way to just install the screen saver applet without reinstalling all of gentoo?
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Forced to install GNOME and you are using Gentoo, odd, but anyway

emerge xscreensaver gnome-applets -av
 
well hers the thing.. im on dial up.. so i dont know how to configure my modem..so i cant dl the files that i need for an emerge...altho i do have a gnetoo install dvd that has a few packages on it.. thats how i got gnome.when i tried to install kde the last 5 files it tried to get offline.. and i couldnt.. so i was forced to use gnome.

i got my sound and mouse to work..as stated above...and now im just having trouble with the screensaver (still) - havent tried your solution yet thought - and 2 other things:

1: When i reboot, the esound service comes up with (!!). I've also noticed that the volume levels dont save. I think the two are related, but I can't figure out why I'm getting an error.

2: I can't seem to mount my NTFS volumes in read-write mode. I have tried every flag, and it still wont work. I have NTFS write support compiled into my kernel, so I'm a bit confused. I use windows mainly, but Linux as just a side system, eventually once I'm secure enough with Linux, I'm going to make the full switch. I've included my /etc/fstab file.


Code: 
/dev/hdb2		 /		ext2		noatime			1 2
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom	auto 		noauto,user			0 0
none			 /proc	proc		defaults			0 0
none			 /dev/shm	tmpfs		nodev,nosuid,noexec	0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom2	auto		noauto,user,nosuid
/dev/hda1		 /mnt/NTFS-Win	ntfs		auto,user,nosuid		0 0
/dev/hdb1		 /mnt/NTFS-Backup	ntfs 		auto,user,nosuid		0 0
 
Don't do it. Unless you use the Captive NTFS driver, write support could very well trash the entire partition.
 
OK, easy enough. Captive NTFS driver???

Anyone got any experiance with that sound error? ^^
 
Drag0n_45 said:
OK, easy enough. Captive NTFS driver???

Anyone got any experiance with that sound error? ^^
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as warned, the Kernel write is not safe (read is EXTREMLY good and normal speed)
captive uses the windows ntfs.sys driver to give READ/WRITE but be warned it is Slooow!!!!!

Is there any particular reason why you need to write to NTFS?
I dual-boot on one of my machines and rther then writing to NTFS from linux (or writing to EXT3 from windows) I have it so Linux can read NTFS and windows can read EXT3, thus it is safe and fast

However, I have now got a linux server and all my user files are stored there and accessed via SAMBA so both windows and linux can write to it (quite good actually)


As to snd, I have hte problem where my volume of the GNOME applet stays MUTED at first login ?? I have been meaning to fix it but it just gets side-lined. Will look into it now tho
 
nah, no real reason - it started off as me trying to move a log file from my linux partition to my windows desktop so I could analyze it in windows (i have a few more hdd toold in win than i do in linux), and I was just wondering why it didnt work.

I have the same problem (kinda). My volume sliders for the surround, front, and master speakers are always on zero when I boot, and the the esound process gives an error on termination. I think the two are related, if the sound process isn't being terminated properly, then the sound volumes wouldnt be saved would they?
 
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