USB mouse not working

Hi,
I have 11.1 installed on Asus Z96S laptop. Kernel boots with these options: nolapic and pci=nomsi (without them system freezes).

Logitech MX400 mouse not working at all while USB ports works well with other hardware. Ubuntu with same boot options worked with mouse normally.

I’d compare Ubuntu’s and Opensuse’s mouse section in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see what’s different, probably the driver used, possibly a wrong identifier. In opensuse 11.0 a logitech USB optical mouse recognized as “logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse” xorg.conf has:

Section "InputDevice"
  Driver       "mouse"
  Identifier   "Mouse[1]"
  Option       "Buttons" "5"
  Option       "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
  Option       "Name" "Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse"
  Option       "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
  Option       "Vendor" "Sysp"
  Option       "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Here it uses the standard mouse driver, nothing special.

And try running dmesg in a terminal right after plugging the mouse, see what messages you get.

Thanks for reply, dmesg output was quite big, so I am copying the part related to mouse (I think that is related :slight_smile: ):

Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 96x33

fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device

hpet_resources: 0xfed00000 is busy

Non-volatile memory driver v1.2

Linux agpgart interface v0.103

Serial: 8250/16550 driver8 ports, IRQ sharing disabled

PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12

i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.

serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1

serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12

mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

cpuidle: using governor ladder

cpuidle: using governor menu

TCP cubic registered

registered taskstats version 1

Freeing unused kernel memory: 1472k freed

Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 5024k

ACPI: SSDT BFF9E0B0, 06CA (r1    AMI   CPU1PM        1 INTL 20060113)

Parsing all Control Methods:

Table [SSDT](id 00A4) - 8 Objects with 0 Devices 4 Methods 0 Regions

ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])

processor ACPI_CPU:00: registered as cooling_device0

Marking TSC unstable due to TSC halts in idle

input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input0

thermal LNXTHERM:01: registered as thermal_zone0

ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ00] (62 C)

ACPI: No dock devices found.

SCSI subsystem initialized

libata version 3.00 loaded.

ahci 0000:00:1f.2: version 3.0

ahci 0000:00:1f.2: PCI INT B -> Link[LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10

ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 3 ports 3 Gbps 0x7 impl SATA mode

ahci 0000:00:1f.2: flags: 64bit ncq sntf pm led clo pio slum part ems 

ahci 0000:00:1f.2: setting latency timer to 64

scsi0 : ahci

scsi1 : ahci

scsi2 : ahci

ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 irq_stat 0x00400040, connection status changed irq 10

ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf3fff000 port 0xf3fff180 irq 10

ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 abar m2048@0xf3fff000 port 0xf3fff200 irq 10

ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)

ata1.00: ATA-8: SAMSUNG HM500LI, 2TF00_00, max UDMA7

ata1.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)

ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133

Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.1, id: 0xa3a0b3, caps: 0xa04713/0x10008

input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input1

@brunomci -

We are both working the same problem in two different threads on this problem. Check my post at 11.1 freezes - Page 3 - openSUSE Forums.

@ Mingus: OK, will do.

@OP: Found this howto: Logitech-MX400 - openSUSE

It’s for 10.3, but may be of some help.

Thx for the helpful link. Check the last posts at the other thread. Actually, sax2 did correctly configure the mouse. Apparently the xorg.conf was over-written and the necessary InputDevice sections were missing.