[Linux-disciples] USB Mouse

[Dylan Thurston]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:53:34AM -0400, Brian Cooke wrote:
> I installed Debian 3.0 tonight, and everything seemed to install OK, but 
> I am having trouble with the basics.  Let's start with my mouse.  It's a 
> USB Mouse.  I'm told that the corresponding device file for this is 
> /dev/input/mice, so that's what I set it to in my XF86config file.  But 
> XFree86 says,
> 
> xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice
>    No such device.
> 
> Something I saw via google suggested that I may need to do "insmod 
> input" first, but when I tried that, I got:
> 
> "insmod: input: no module by that name found"
> 
> So I'm not sure how to proceed.  Any input would be great.

What kernel are you using?  If you compiled it yourself, did you
compile in usb support and usbdevfs?

With the 2.6 kernels, the recommended thing is to install the package
'hotplug'.
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