Well I came back from a long day doing lots of stuffs to find that pc had rebooted itself (no biggie it does that from time to time because of my POS mobo). Anyways I try to move the mouse to rid myself of the blank screen and nothing happened. Then I looked down and saw that my mouse light was off (wtf?). So I log in and reboot. I watch the boot message and the mouse light turns off right when the boot goes through my USB hub. It sees that I have 2 devices plugged in (a portable hdd and my mouse). I don't see anything really amiss. No error messages no nothing. It also seems that some files reverted to a previous state. Namely my boot script which gives me cool colors in console and has a bunch of shortcuts. I noticed it because it reverted to the ugly set of colors that were on it before. I have no clue where to start fixing the problem. Any ideas? All help is greatly appreciated PS: sorry if this is all on one line because I'm stuck in text mode and dunno if the site fixes it automatically.
Thanks again to any and all who help me!!!! (PLZ I NEED MY MOUSE BACK AHHH!!)

Also I booted back into my old 2.4 default slack kernel and I didn't lose my mouse if that helps any. The kernel that I'm normally running is the 2.6.7.

Some basics :

- hotplug is enabled or not ?
- output from : cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i mouse
- output from : lsmod | grep hci
- output from : dmesg | grep -i mouse

cedrik : couple of questions
1) Hotplug ~are your referring to is that built into the kerneal, or a option software thing ?
2) why lsmod, & why th hci option ?

1) I mean if /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug is executable or not (slackware specific)
2) lsmod list the modules loaded and it seems that there is a problem with the usb mouse, so I want to know if correct usb modules are loaded (like uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd,etc...)

I do have hotplug running. Here's the output from cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i mouse:
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV=Y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_PSAUX=Y
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_X=1280
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSEDEV_SCREEN_Y=1024
CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE=Y
CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2=Y
#CONFIG_MOUSE_SERIAL is not set
#CONFIG_MOUSE_VSXXXA is not set
There was no output from lsmod | grep hci
And dmesg| grep -i mouse only gave me this:
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
I'll go ahead and post the output of dmesg | grep hci too:
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2:Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1)
^^same as above^^:irq 5, io base 0000b000
^^^^:new usb bus registered, assigned bus number 2
^^^^:Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
^^^^:irq 9, io base 0000b800
^^^^:new usb bus registered, assigned bus number 2

Ok, fine

Now what is your output for :

cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i hci
modprobe -l | grep -i hci

Also :
lspci -v|grep -i hci

chz cedrik

cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i hci:
#CONFIG_USB_EHCI_HCD is not set
#CONFIG_USB_OHCI_HCD is not set
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD=y
modprobe -l | grep -i hci gave no output
lspci -v|grep -i hci:
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev12) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
02:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Creative Labs SB Audigy Firewire Port (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Any ideas on what I should do?

Yes, recompile your kernel with CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD enabled as module may help
Device Drivers --->USB support --->UHCI HCD support

But the mouse should work with your actual config, though

One last output please, to make sure before compile :
cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -i hid

hopefully my last output for this post:
CONFIG_USB_HID=Y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=Y
#CONFIG_HID_FF is not set
#CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV is not set
CONFIG_USB_PHIDGETSERVO=M

So should I go ahead and recompile?

Also my motherboard doesn't have USB 2.0 but if you think it will make it work...

I wanted to know these lines :
CONFIG_USB_HID=Y
CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=Y

Now I am slightly lost, as you seem to have all features enabled for an usb mouse...

Did you connect it as usb ?

The only difference (exepted I enabled CONFIG_USB_UHCI_HCD as module not as built-in) with my system is from output of :

dmesg | grep -i mouse
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [Cypress Sem PS2/USB Browser Combo Mouse] on usb-0000:00:11.2-2

And I run udev too (chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.udev if it is not already set)

Well I don't see any real option other than a full on re-install. This time I think I'll use rieserfs and make a windows partition because gaming on linux is a pain ;x. If there are any other options I would like to hear them. I downloaded the 2.6.8.1 kernel and compiled that from the ground up and it still didn't work. That makes me think I'm missing something more than a module... Anyways thanks for all the help guys!