Re: microsoft natural 6000 wireless mouse

robcussons@xxxxxxxx staggered into the Black Sun and said:
Dances With Crows wrote:
robcussons@o2 wrote:
Has anyone managed to get this [Microsoft natural 6000] mouse
working on Debian Etch?
Is this mouse USB? If so, it should use the usbhid module
It uses a USB wireless receiver

It almost certainly uses usbhid, then.

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
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?

Not AFAICT. I have no idea why any sane admin would want to deny access
to a mouse device to any user, though. Mice aren't nearly as big of a
security risk as storage devices or network adapters.

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

If you hadn't tried it yet, you should've said something.

I'm looking at buying one and want to know if it'll work before I
shell out the cash.

Save the receipt just in case.

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