[oclug] USB Mice, laptops and X

[Mike Bush]

Stephen Gregory wrote:

>On Sunday 25 January 2004 14:22, Mike Bush wrote:
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>>Does anyone know how to enable a usb mouse in X, after X has been loaded?
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>Make sure the USB mouse drivers are loaded before you start X. This will 
>create the /dev/input/mice device. To determine what modules/drivers you 
>need:
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>run lsmod before connecting mouse
>plug in mouse
>run lsmod
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>You should see a difference in the loaded modules. You want these new modules 
>to load at boot before X starts. This will depend on your distribution I 
>think.
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>In my case the difference is:
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>mousedev
>hid
>input
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>On Debian (with custom kernel) I added the following to /etc/modules
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>input
>hid
>mousedev
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>The input module is loaded by both hid and mousedev. It could be left out of 
>/etc/modules, but it doesn't hurt manually load it.
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Thanks, that worked.

Mike