Re: Wireless USB Wheel Mouse under X

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:40:48AM -0700, Stefan Johnson wrote:
> I just finished reading the archives again.  I'm trying to get my
> Micro Innovations wireless USB wheel mouse working.  When I cat
> /dev/input/mice I get the expected junk whenever I move the mouse,
> click buttons, etc. When I change the link for /dev/mouse to point
> to /dev/input/mice and run startx, X doesn't recognize
> any mouse events.  Is there a place to change the mouse X expects
> to use?  I read somewhere that this isn't the normal XFree86 and
> that it is picky about certain things.  I looked for an XF86Config
> file and didn't see one, so I assume it is a specialized version of
> X. If I don't change the link for /dev/mouse, X reads events from
> the built-in touch pad just fine.  The touch pad is a pain,
> however, as every time i type, my palm brushes against it, sending
> the mouse all over the place and causing general havok.

What image are you testing?  There are several listed at
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/testing.html, and more all the time at
http://www.lnx-bbc.org/builds/

> I still haven't gotten networking to work either, but I have
> determined that the correct driver is the natsemi.o provided. I
> think it's a problem with either a) discover, b) dhcp tools, or c)
> trivial-net-setup.  I noticed that there are modules hard coded
> into the trivial-net-setup script and that the natsemi.o isn't one
> of them.  It probably isn't the problem, but I thought I'd ask.


> Finally, I wanted to mention that the Lexar JumpDrive
> Trio (uses SD, MMC, and Memory Stick) USB drive works
> fine.  I was able to mount my 64M SD under /dev/sda1
> without a snag.  :) It's a nice cheap drive for anyone
> interested.  

Good to know.

> I'll work on narrowing down my networking issue and see if I can
> get it to work.  If I can, I can set up a GAR build system on my SD
> and build my own custom Lnx-BBC disk.  (It'd be nice to have an IRC
> client of some sort on the disk, but space is a premium.) Thanks
> for any help and suggestions. Stefan

irssi is included in most builds, I think.

--Joe