Re: [gentoo-user] new machine : mouse trouble : solved by accident

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net> wrote:
> No progress yesterday.  Today, I carefully checked the Kernel .config
> & installed 3.4.9 , in case there was something new in 3.5.3 :
> I have 3.4.0 in this machine, where the mouse works.
> Then I started looking a Udev in this machine to see what mb missing there.
> Back in the new machine, I was preparing to remerge -evdev- etc
> & casually checked  /dev/input : mouse0 was there !
> I logged in as user, 'startx' & the mouse worked in Fluxbox !
> -- Xorg.log had found a Logitech mouse at /dev/input/event3 using evdev.
> Well, perhaps it was some setting which took effect after the reboot.
>
> Well, no, it wasn't.  When I had switched off & was replugging connections,
> I found that I'd plugged the mouse into a different USB slot :
> the previous one -- similar to the one in this machine -- was 2.0/1.1 ,
> the new one which works is 3.0/2.0 .  NB Mageia + SystemRescue both
> find the mouse in the former place, but my new Gentoo only in the latter.
> The new mobo is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ; this one is an ASUS P5G41T-M .
>
> Further comments are very welcome.
>
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>

Look at which host controller interfaces you have enabled. IIRC
USB-3.0 required a new one - probably XHCI but I don't really
remember.

HTH,
Mark


mark@slinky ~ $ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep HCI
CONFIG_SATA_AHCI=y
# CONFIG_SATA_AHCI_PLATFORM is not set
# CONFIG_SATA_ACARD_AHCI is not set
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_OHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_EHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_ARCH_HAS_XHCI=y
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
# CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD_DEBUGGING is not set
CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD=y
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_ROOT_HUB_TT is not set
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_TT_NEWSCHED is not set
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD=y
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD_PLATFORM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD_PLATFORM is not set
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_DESC is not set
# CONFIG_USB_OHCI_BIG_ENDIAN_MMIO is not set
CONFIG_USB_OHCI_LITTLE_ENDIAN=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
# CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT is not set
mark@slinky ~ $