Re: USB and PS/2 Mouse - plug-n-play?

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On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 15:30, Eric Rose wrote:
> ...I'm still not getting anywhere on this - sure, I can
> run mouseconfig. Well, I set it to the Logitech
> PS/2 Wheel mouse that I have at work, which works
> as well for the touchpad (without the middle button,
> but that's ok). But it still won't recognize the USB
> mouse when I plug it in. Is there a "generic" PS/2
> mouse that I have to configure, that allows the USB
> mouse to be magically recognized and "wired up"?
> 
Can't remember if you said - have you recompiled the kernel at all? If
so there was a problem with usb mice and the hiddev option. The archives
have the details.

> (I'd stop bugging ya'll if I could find some docs...but
>  there don't seem to be any. I'm willing to dig through
>  code, conf files, whatever, I just need some pointers :-)
>
Damn fiddly problem...no obvious solution...need a bit of help from
someone else. Happens to us all at some time :-)


John.

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