RedHat 8.0 usb mouse problem

[chalk]

I'm having a problem getting my usb mouse to work under RedHat 8.0. When I first installed 8.0, it worked fine. After about 3 days, Kudzu came up with a boot message saying the usb mouse was no longer installed even though nothing had changed in the computer. I told it not to change anything. Ever since then my mouse will not work.

I have a Logitech USB cordless wheel mouse. When I boot Linux now, the usb drivers are not installed. I have tried installing the USB drivers by doing a insmod usbcore and insmod hid. After this a lsmod gives the following:

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
emu10k1 68840 0 (autoclean)
ac97_codec 13384 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
sound 74228 0 (autoclean) [emu10k1]
soundcore 6500 7 (autoclean) [emu10k1 sound]
agpgart 42912 0 (autoclean)
NVdriver 1149216 0 (autoclean)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 0 [hid]
parport_pc 19108 1 (autoclean)
lp 8996 0 (autoclean)
parport 37152 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
mousedev 5524 1 (autoclean)
input 5888 0 (autoclean) [hid mousedev]
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
e100 62388 1
8139too 17704 1
mii 2156 0 [8139too]
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 14840 1 [iptable_filter]
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 58784 1 (autoclean)
ext3 70400 2
jbd 52212 2 [ext3]

I have also tried the 'cat /dev/input/mice' trick someone else suggested here, but when I move the mouse around after typing this in I get no response on the screen. It appears that there is some sort of USB problem. I know there is no problem with the mouse itself because it works fine under Windows XP.

Please help. I'm forced to used Windows until I can get this fixed :-)

[mdwatts]

Sorry for the delay in responding. I was hoping someone with a usb mouse (I don't) would be able to offer you suggestions.

Could you please post the InputDevice section from /etc/X11/XF86Config (-4).

You can also try a G4L search ( www.google.com/linux ) for 'usb mouse' and you may find something to help. Required modules etc.

[chalk]

Hi mdwatts. I have it working now. I had done something that I had forgotten about. I wanted to add support for ntfs to my RedHat 8.0 installation, so I compiled and installed the ntfs module. I think in the process I may have screwed something else up, since now that I think back it seems it was about that time that my mouse stopped working.

Anyway, I just reinstalled RedHat - probably not the best solution - but now everything works fine.

Thanks for your reply.