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

[Jack Bowling]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:43:50PM -0500, 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

And to state the pedantic case for future references, if you have both
USB 1.1 and 2.0 devices, you need both drivers. In fact it is quite
possible depending on your USB devices that you would need all three
usb drivers loaded.


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Jack Bowling
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