USB Mouse is not detected on startup

Nitrub · #1 16th November 2007, 09:28 PM

I have a Logitech USB Mouse and MSI (don't know how to look more specifically under linux - advice needed) motherboard, and when I boot onto my Fedora 8, the mouse isn't working. To fix that, I've to re-plug the mouse into USB and then it works.
It's really annoying, help is needed...

Nitrub · #2 24th November 2007, 06:15 PM

Anyone can help?

sideways · #3 24th November 2007, 06:31 PM

try enabling 'legacy usb support' in the bios

Nitrub · #4 24th November 2007, 07:33 PM

Didn't help

sideways · #5 24th November 2007, 08:47 PM

did the mouse work during the install?

have you updated the kernel since then?

Nitrub · #6 25th November 2007, 06:46 AM

Yes, it did work. It worked with Live CD too.
I updated kernel yesterday, but it didn't change anything

sideways · #7 25th November 2007, 02:28 PM

try reinstalling the original kernel rpm from the install disc, use 'rpm --force -ihv'
then select that kernel from the grub boot menu

hubi26 · #8 25th November 2007, 10:08 PM

I have about the same trouble. Yesterday I installed FC 8 on an IBM T60. The mouse worked after the install. I updated about 365 packages today. After a reboot the mouse stopped working.

It used to be that the mouse pointer was movable during the boot process so one can select Detail an see the boot messages. Now this does not work too.

If I check cat /dev/input/mice I get some random chars on my tty (as expected I would say). However the mouse pointer remains in the center of the screen in X/Gnome. I checked /var/log/messages and Xorg.0.log. I could not see anything peculiar. In xorg.0.log i saw that it is using /device/input/mice and setting the protocol to ExplorerPS/2.

Any ideas?