Re: microsoft natural 6000 wireless mouse

On Jun 24, 5:09 pm, Dances With Crows
<danSPANceswithTRAPcr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
robcuss...@xxxxxxxx staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Has anyone managed to get this [Microsoft natural 6000] mouse working
on Debian Etch? What is required and must you be root to do it?

Is this mouse USB? If so, it should use the usbhid module and should
report events on /dev/input/mouseN as well as /dev/input/mice in either
the IMPS/2 or EXPS/2 protocol. If it's not USB, say something; the rest
of this message assumes it's USB.

It uses a USB wireless receiver

want to use this mouse in my workplace and I don't have root there. If
root is required, what needs to be done?

Make sure usbhid has been modprobed and usb_ohci or usb_uhci (depending
on your USB1 chipset) has also been modprobed. Fix X's config file (
/etc/X11/xorg.conf ) such that there's a mouse device defined for
/dev/input/mouseN or /dev/input/mice and that it is using the
appropriate protocol.

Ok, that all sounds like I need to be logged in as root, so I'll need
to talk nicely
to the sysadmin, is there anyway this can be done on a user-by-user
basis as
he might not want to do it for all users?

It is strange that this didn't work immediately;
when I plugged a USB mouse into my Gentoo system, it started working
immediately even though I hadn't changed X's config file yet.

Sorry, I didn't make this clear I haven't tried this yet, I'm looking
at buying one
and want to know if it'll work before I shell out the cash.

I actually have two systems to consider, both of which I would like to
use this
mouse on. I have a gentoo system at home, where of course I have root
access
and a debian system at work where I don't.

Thanks for the help so far.

.

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