USB Mouse and SuSE 8

[tolstoy]

USB Mouse in SuSE 8.0. Ok, here's the skinny. I run the ftp install. The boot disk and modules disks detect my mouse and install it. I select a mouse and test it (Logitech wheel mouse/USB). The darn things works through the entire install process, but somehow stops working after the first full boot of the OS. Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any advice? My mouse has always worked fine with RH 7.2 installing from CD.

[pbharris]

hello tolstoy,
Seem slike i had this issue, but iwth a PS2 mouse on Potato. I needed to go in and load the modules myself and make sure XF86Config was cool.
hth

[tolstoy]

Thanks for the reply. My next question is this, how can I boot to init 1 or 2 from grub? If I boot to init level 5, I get stuck at the KDE desktop, and since I can get my mouse to work, I can't open a shell to do anything.

[pbharris]

ah! well if the mighty ctrl+alt+F1 does not help then ahve a looky here -> grub PET
here is the section you were looking for - pam say you can boot into any runlevel which i really need to test and update the pet.

Using GRUB!
Okay - you have an option of booting two operating systems. They appear in the menu and all seems well. But you wish to pass in certian parameters to the kernel or perhaps you need to but into another run level. Well - you can pass in paramters, but you can only boot normaly or into single use mode. GRUB was not designed to be used for Linux only. To boot into sigle user mode select the image you wish to boot from the grub boot menu and type e for edit. You will then need to add the word single after the name of the kernel you wish to boot. Then type b and you will be booted into singel user mode.


Command Mode
To get into command mode hit c when the grub menu shows up You will be taken to the grun command prompt. From here you have many options to choose from. Some of the more frequently used ones are:
kernel With this command you can select a boot image.

boot Boot the aforementioned image.

help Get help on the commnads that can be used in GRUB.

[Schotty]

grub will allow you to boot into whatever runlevel by hitting whatever button it is (states in the paragraph below the boot images) and typing

linux 2

or whatever runlevel you want.

[tolstoy]

Thanks for the replies. Well I finally got the thing to work by getting a ps2 converter for the darn thing. Why didn't I think of that earlier. It's always the simpliest solutions that we miss. So far I am digging SuSE. I like the ftp install and adding packages via ftp with YaST. I'm still a RH fan, but YaST is much easier than up2date.

[middleclass]

Hi,

I had a similar problem but it was intermittent. I got this from the SuSE support page and thought it might apply to your problem. It fixed my mouse problem.




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USB Mouse Does Not Work After Rebooting
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Support knowledgebase (wessels_usbmouse80)
Applies to

SuSE Linux: Version 8.0

Symptom
Your mouse is no longer active after rebooting SuSE Linux 8.0.
Cause
Some modules have not been loaded or the mouse is not properly detected.
Solution
Check the Loaded Modules

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Switch to a console with CTRL+ALT+F1 and log in as root.
*

Now execute the command /sbin/lsmod and check if all modules for the USB mouse have been loaded. The following modules are necessary for the mouse function:

usb-uhci (or usb-ohci)
usbcore
hid
input
mousedev

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If any of these modules are missing, they can be manually loaded with
/sbin/modprobe MODULE_NAME.
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Switch back to the graphical interface with ALT+F7 and check if the mouse works normally.

If the mouse works, proceed as described in the next paragraph. If this is not the case, skip to the section Modules Loaded, Mouse Does Not Respond.

Automatic Module Loading

Open the file /etc/init.d/boot.local as follows:

/usr/bin/mcedit /etc/init.d/boot.local

and append the following command at the end of the file:

/sbin/modprobe MODULE_NAME

MODULE_NAME must be replaced with the name of the module to load. Then save the changes with F2 and leave the editor with F10.
Modules Loaded, Mouse Does Not Respond

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Switch back to the console (CTRL+ALT+F1)
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Open the file /etc/init.d/hotplug as follows:

/usr/bin/mcedit /etc/sysconfig/hotplug

and append the entry sleep 3 at the end of the file.
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After saving the file, execute the command/sbin/SuSEconfig
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Restart the system to use the changed files.

Note: The option "sleep" delays the scan of the USB bus. This delay can be shortened with sleep 2 or sleep 1. However, at present we cannot really say if this causes the mouse to be initialized. Feedback is welcome. We would also like to thank Mr. Leuxner, who tested several solutions for us.
Keywords: USB, MOUSE, X11, KDM, RESTART, BOOT, GRAPHICAL_INTERFACE
Categories: Window Manager , Mouse
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[tolstoy]

Thanks again.