R3000z and USB mouse

[Jonathan Berry]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 17:12:01 -0500, Gene Czarcinski <gene at czarc.net> wrote:
> I have a recently manufactured Compaq R3000z laptop (Athlon64 processor) ...
> apparently one of the last with the 1920x1200 screen.
> 
> For some time now I have been trying to get the USB mouse to work.  I have
> both i386 and x86_64 everything installs of FC3 (as well as WinXP in a
> partition squeezed down to a reasonable size).  My problem is that same for
> both the i386 and x86_64 systems ... the USB mouse does not work (is not even
> recognized as present).  This has been bugzilla'ed as
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=143895
[snip]
> OK, ...
> 
> 1. Anyone else seeing problems trying to use a USB mouse on a Compaq R3000z or
> the HP more or less identical model?
> 
> 2.  Anyone have any suggestions on how to get things to work (or getting more
> info)?
> 
> BTW, I am also aware that some individuals claim that the problem is with the
> F30 BIOS code which my laptop has install and that I should revert to the
> previous F21 BIOS.  I am very reluctant to changing BIOS code "backward"
> since this could break other things.
> 
> WinXP works with both the touchpad and the USB mouse as well as using acpi
> functionality so I suspect that it is possible ... just not in the 2.6 kernel
> yet.
> --
> Gene

Hi Gene,
Check out this list for running Linux on the R3000Z:
http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000

There is a new BIOS out now, F33 which apparently fixes the problem. 
So if you don't mind flashing to a newer BIOS, that should work for
you.  It seems like the F33 BIOS is the best update yet.  I haven't
ever upgraded because mine came with F11, which is not available
anymore and has not had some of the problems that others have.

Jonathan