USB mouse doesn't work

**MDesigner** · 04-21-2004, 03:10 AM

I have a MS IntelliMouse Explorer that Knoppix won't recognize. I boot the live CD, and the mouse is not active. I tried booting with "knoppix noapic" but that didn't work.

Any suggestions?

**Markus** · 04-21-2004, 04:42 PM

You can try with nousb as well as noapic, or do what I did, get a USB->PS/2 adapter.

**MDesigner** · 04-21-2004, 06:46 PM

But won't nousb disable all USB compatibility then?

**Markus** · 04-21-2004, 07:45 PM

AFAIK it just skips the autodetection for usb, doesn't hurt to try.

**arkaine23** · 04-21-2004, 10:32 PM

try

sudo /etc/init.d/hotplug restart

**MDesigner** · 04-22-2004, 03:14 AM

I got some weird errors when I tried that.. I hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get into a console, and typed sudo /etc/init.d/hotplug restart. Got some strange errors and a mount error. If you tell me how I can get this text over to Windows, I'll post it here.

**skecs** · 04-24-2004, 10:42 AM

The Microsoft Blue USB mouse doesn't work in Knoppix 3.3 as supplied by Australian Personal Computer magazine with the May 2004 issue. If I use the USB-PS/2 adapter there is no problem. The mouse is detected with other "live" CDs on this system - is it a bug where no USB devices are detected by Knoppix? I have a Gigabyte GA-7VA motherboard and a USB graphics tablet (Medion MD9570) is not detected either. These are on different USB2.0 connectors.