[arch-general] usb keyboard and mouse

Celti celticmadman at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 19:52:34 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 15:42, Sergej Pupykin <pupykin.s at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use MS Inteli Mouse. And it does not want to work without usbmouse
> module if I plug it in into usb (without usb->ps/2 connector)
>
> Here my xorg.conf mouse section:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>        Identifier  "mouse"
>        Driver      "evdev"
>        Option      "ButtonNumber" "5"
>        Option      "Name" "Autodetection"
>        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> I try now
> rmmod usbmouse
> on running X - mouse dissapeared
>
> modprobe usbmouse
> makes mouse work again
>
>

You might try using the standard mouse driver in X, rather than evdev.
You don't seem to have anything that requires evdev in there, and in
my experience it causes more problems than it solves.

~celti




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