[ale] Linux 2.4 and usb mice

[Tejus Parikh]

When I got home, I tried compiling a new kernel so I could make sure it 
had my chipset compiled in.  It no longer looks like it's trying to 
associate with the keyboard drivers.  It almost looks like everything 
worked fine, but mouse events don't register.  The light on the mouse 
does come on.  To test i'm using /dev/input/mice.   This is what my 
logs have to say about it:

dmesg shows this.  During this period, I plugged in and unplugged a few 
different mice:
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xc16/0x2) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
input,hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Gyration Gyration RF Technology 
Receiver] on usb2:2.0
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech at suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:10.0-2 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.2-2, assigned address 2
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
input,hiddev0: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Gyration Gyration RF Technology 
Receiver] on usb4:2.0
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:10.2-2 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.2-1, assigned address 3
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:10.2-1, assigned address 4
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=4 (error=-110)


lsmod shows:
root at dizzy:~# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
uinput                  3008   0  (unused)
keybdev                 2052   0  (unused)
mousedev                3988   1
hid                    21092   0  (unused)
ohci1394               25328   0  (unused)
ieee1394               46116   0  [ohci1394]
uhci                   25212   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               17644   0  (unused)
usbcore                39076   0  [hid uhci ehci-hcd]

Quoting Tejus Parikh <tejus at vijedi.net>:

> This seems like it'd be easy to figure out, but I haven't been able to
> make any progress.  I have a MB with a VIA chipset, (C82xxxx shows up
> in lspci).  I also have a gyration wireless mouse.  This mouse works
> perfectly on my 3 2.6.x machines and on a 2.6 kernel on this box.  It
> appears to show up as a standard imps/2 mouse.
>
> However, I can't seem to get it or any other mouse to work on the 2.4
> kernel series.  I tried the default kernels from Slackware 10 and 10.2.
>  I haven't tried a custom kernel yet.  I have usbcore, usbmouse, and
> the two usb hub drivers loaded.
>
> According to /var/log/messages, it appears to detect the new device,
> but there's a line like "registering new device to usbkbd" as well as
> some lines about a USB Bulk timeout.  I don't have a usb keyboard
> attached to this machine.
>
> The "easy" solution would be to switch to 2.6, but via's audio driver
> doesn't work on 2.6 and I can't get any sound from the digital output
> source under alsa.  Thanks a lot,
>
> Tejus
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Tejus