USB Mouse not Working
Chris Maness
chris at chrismaness.com
Sun Jul 29 14:14:09 UTC 2007
> <snip>
>>
>> The mouse seems to get detected perfectly and this is the GENERIC kernel
>> build that has the modules. The mouse gets detected and listed at boot
>> time. However, I don't think I am getting data out of the mouse port.
>>
>> I beleive in the past I have checked with
>>
>> #cat /dev/ums0
>>
>> and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the
>> screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this after killing moused (moused
>> makes ums0 unavailable).
>>
>> Chris Maness
>> _______________________________________________
>
> Perhaps the mouse is dead or dying? Mine keeps its USB cable on a little
> spindle, and to unreel the cable you have to tug on the cable. Not the best
> design since the cable is very thin and has taken damage over time.
>
> Adam J Richardson
>
The mouse is working well on another system. Did you try my little
experiment?
Chris Maness
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