Usb Mouse Problems

[almac]

I have a DELL Latitude D600 with a deadmoo partition (dd'd from vmware image and resized to 18Gb) and an installation from a patched Marklar DVD on a second partition (12Gb).

I cannot get a USB mouse working in either of these installations, however my USB memory key works perfectly.

Running "dmesg" from terminal when I plug in the USB mouse shows:

"The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying"

Interesting enough, during the installation from the patched DVD, my USB mouse, touchpad and keyboard all worked. However, after installation the USB mouse no longer works. I suspect this has something to do with "ApplePS2Controller.kext", but I do not know how to fix it.

If it can work from the bootable installation DVD there must be a way to get it working once OSX is installed.

The DELL doesn't have a PS/2 port so my only option is USB. I have tried different mice (2 microsoft and a logitech with no luck). Can someone please offer a solution?

 

PS I have tried the various setting in the BIOS.

[Stefan Wouters]

I have a DELL Latitude D600 with a deadmoo partition (dd'd from vmware image and resized to 18Gb) and an installation from a patched Marklar DVD on a second partition (12Gb).

I cannot get a USB mouse working in either of these installations, however my USB memory key works perfectly.

Running "dmesg" from terminal when I plug in the USB mouse shows:

"The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying"

Interesting enough, during the installation from the patched DVD, my USB mouse, touchpad and keyboard all worked. However, after installation the USB mouse no longer works. I suspect this has something to do with "ApplePS2Controller.kext", but I do not know how to fix it.

If it can work from the bootable installation DVD there must be a way to get it working once OSX is installed.

The DELL doesn't have a PS/2 port so my only option is USB. I have tried different mice (2 microsoft and a logitech with no luck). Can someone please offer a solution?

 

PS I have tried the various setting in the BIOS.

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I heard if you delete AppleFPMemDriver.kext, it will work correctly. If you don't want to delete any files you could try connecting your mouse to a USB hub: It worked for me, I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 notebook.

[ljsoares]

I had the same problem with my pc and the way i fixed the problem was to "Disable USB Keyboard Support" in the bios, but leave USB enabled. Now if you only have USB connections then i would suggest, you add the PS2 KEXT from Darwin to your install.

 

Do this, Boot in to Darwin8.1 at a point in the boot up it will look for available HD and it will give you the option of going to "shell" pay attention to the path of your hd cause you will need it to mount the hd, i my cause it was "/dev/disk0s1" and go into "shell" then type this

 

mount -t hfs -o nosuid,-w,-m=755 /dev/disk0s1 /tmp

 

 

 

this will mount your hd onto "/tmp", you can now add the PS2 kext to "/tmp/System/Library/Extension/"

 

hope this works for you.

[almac]

Thanks,

The USB hub idea worked. I will try the AppleFPMemDriver.kext at some stage, but for now I am happy.

[domino]

for future wonderers. you can also get a usb to ps2 converter if you prefer.

[Stefanul]

Hy,

 

I have a problem:

 

I install OsX on P4 2,6gh on 8IPE100 mb.

Installation works fine, both mouse & keyb on PS/2 port, but, after install, mouse hang up into a corner and the system - after repeating tryies on keyb - chrash.

 

None other usb or ps2 mouse/keyboard combination doesn't work. Even a genuine apple mouse&keyb from a G4 could not fix the problem.

 

Helppppp meeee...pls.