Can't get my USB wireless mouse to work

[Daladim]

Alright guys, yes I am a newbie to linux, but I really want to learn the stuff, so please bear with me here, I am trying to find clear, understandable answers. I know that may not be entirely possible without a basic understanding of linux, so let me inform you that I have a ton of books and anything else related to linux for reference purposes. I have also been dabbling in Linux live CD's for about eight months now, So I kind of understand some things, and if you have an answer that will work, I will be able to figure it out and apply it..

Anyway, enough digressing. I installed a multi boot system on my laptop this weekend which consists of three XP systems, and Back|Track 2. Everything works flawlessly, except for the fact that I have no mouse in Back|Track 2. I have searched the net and applied what I have learned through that. I learned that settings can be adjusted in xorg.conf, and that the [drivers?] are found in /dev, and in /dev/input. I have tried many different settings, and none of these work at all.

I also learned of a way to identify peripherals plugged into USB ports, at least I think that's what it does.

entering the command: lsusb, and pressing enter, I get the following info printed out:

bus 2 device 3: id 0d62:0530 darfon electronics corp.

I'm sure you understand that this is only the line that contained info, I ommitted all other lines. I believe that this points to my mouse, which is a miniature Gigaware portable laser mouse that I purchased at Radio Shack.

So, after failing in the autosetep with typing xorgconfig outside of x, and also typing xorgsetup, I have made my way to /etc/x11/, and manually adjusted the settings to add an additional input device, and point it to /dev/mouse, /dev/input/mice, /dev/input/mouse0, and so on with all the different options available. I still could not get it to work.

Now, short of purchasing a new mouse, is there any other way to get this to work?

One other thing that may or may not be helpful, My laptop is a Dell Vostro 1000, and is basically stock except for extra ram.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, I hope someone could be helpful and point me in the right direction.

[purehate]

you can give this command a go....

pureh@te~#modprobe psmouse

[Daladim]

pureh@te~#modprobe psmouse

I believe I have already tried that, but maybe it was #modprobe usbmouse? Don't know if there is such a command. I will give it another try though. Thank you for the reply, pureh@te. I appreciate it.

[NoCover]

if u used it with vmware the problem would go away..
VMware has usb support built in

[Barry]

if u used it with vmware the problem would go away..
VMware has usb support built in

So does backtrack, and most every other linux distro.

[Daladim]

O.K., I have entered in the code you gave me. I tried it both inside and outside of X, and it seems to have made some progress, but not very much. In X, I get the mouse to work, but it is very, very slow, and kind of jerky. If I type it in outside of X, then run startx, it works just fine, that is until the start up music plays. then I get nothing.

Any other possibilities?

[MrWrong]

off the top of my head it sounds like an IRQ conflict with the soundcard, I'm not sure howto fix it though

[Daladim]

off the top of my head it sounds like an IRQ conflict with the soundcard, I'm not sure howto fix it though

Thank you for the suggestion, MrWrong. I will check into that. I am not very fluent in Linux, but I do know how to read, and I also know how to use google. That might give me some leads on a fix. I suppose I could also check out some of the linux books I have lying around too. But I have been pretty busy working on my other systems as of late.

Again, thank you for the suggestion, I will definitely look into it.