[CLUE-Tech] odd mouse problems with gentoo

[Evan Widger]

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aaannnnd i'm a retard apparently

i forgot to enable CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT in the kernel, you know, the one
that say "say Y here if you want to use USB keyboards, mice, etc..."

so yeah, mouse is working fine and i just got thunderbird all set up and
copied my maildirs over (and my prefs.js with a bit of editing) and am
now up and running in Gentoo. and i just enabled gpg/pgp signing and
encrypting so lets see if this works...

now just for enemy-territory to finish downloading......

Evan Widger wrote:
| just installed gentoo on my desktop, using 2.4.24 kernel and whatever
| the latest X is (4.3?)
|
| my mouse (logitech optical usb w/wheel) is detected at boot as an hid
| device, and attached to /dev/usb/hid/hiddev0. i simlinked this to
| /dev/usbmouse (/dev/mouse wasn't letting me simlink for some reason). i
| told x to use /dev/usbmouse. when i cat /dev/usbmouse and move the mouse
| i get all sorts of weird characters, so i know it's working (other
| places commonly used for mouse like /dev/mouse and /dev/input/mice don't
| have any output from a cat).
|
| when i run startx the nvidia splash screen comes up and whatever that
| ugly default WM is. depending on the protocol used, i get different
| behaviors. 'auto' leaves the screen on the wm and locked up, hitting
| ctl+alt+Backspace kills it, after a minute or 2. with IMPS/2, all mouse
| movements send it down and to the left. with 'PS/2' it moves very
| erratically and behaves like it's clicking all over the place (so much
| random movement it even crashed X once). ExplorerPS/2 is similar to
| IMPS/2 with down/left movements and other random things.
|
| i've looked at the docs on xfree's website, searched the gentoo forums,
| and even asked in freenode.net/#gentoo. nobody seems to know what's
| going on. the mouse works fine in windows and freebsd (with the same
| version of x) and the slax livecd (a livecd version of slackware, think
| zipslack with a gui).
|
| i'm not sure if it's an X issue or a kernel/driver issue. i believe i
| have all the right things selected in the kernel for usb mouse
| operation, i can post the relavent parts of my kernel .config file.
|
| thanks in advance...
|
| -evan (posting from windows unfortunately)
|
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