Logitec Optical USB Wheel Mouse with kernel 2.6.0-1-109 not working

[Ernest L. Williams Jr.]

On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:43, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
> ne... wrote:
> 
> >On Jan 3, 2004 at 13:43, Ernest L. Williams Jr. in a soothing rage wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I just went to the kernel 2.6.0-1-109 under Fedora CORE Release 1.
> >>
> >>My Logitech OPTICAL USB WHEEL Mouse no longer works.  Can someone tell
> >>me how to get this going again?  
> >>    
> >>
> >Mine does. There are problems with wheel rodents and the 2.6 kernels.
> >Search http://www.kerneltrap.org/ for more info. My grub.conf has the
> >following line:
> >
> >kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.0-1.109 ro root=LABEL=/ psmouse_noext=1
> >
> >My thoughts are the 'psmouse_noext=1' should help you out.
> >
> >HTH
> >
> >N.Emile...
> >  
> >
> For me adding the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf did the trick, 
> then either reboot or modprobe usb-controller to get usb working:
> alias usb-controller ohci-hcd
> 
> If you have usb 2.0 use this line instead:
> alias usb-controller uhci-hcd

I have USB 2.0. Your recommendation worked perfectly!!  Thanks for the
help.  I will post a new question asking how to get sound working.




-- 
Ernest L. Williams Jr. <ernesto at ornl.gov>