No mouse in Porteus 5.01

[kalo86]

Dear Community,

I have a new machine with recent hardware and I have a problem with mouse and not responsive keyboard with Porteus-KDE-v5.01-x86_64.
I noticed that there are new updates for core, kernel, xorg, but even with these new modules I still have the issue with missing mouse and not responsive keyboard.
I use the Logitech mouse & keyboard combo with the USB receiver dongle.

At this link you can see the output of dmesg:
https://jumpshare.com/s/4EmQ0W1SxGclJdUIvn73

I hope to receive your help.

Thank you, best regards,
kalo86

[beny]

hi,if you have the inxi software it show a better hardware list, in terminal inxi -Fxxi the dongle is connected into an usb from the motherboard? if not try it a direct connection.

[kalo86]

Hi Beny,
The Porteus distribution is clean, no extra modules added except for devel.xzm and google chrome.
The USB dongle is connected to the motherboard's USB.
Just for your information: running the full Slackware Linux distro, everything is running properly.
The issue is to be investigated on Porteus configuration, not on the USB ports.
I suspect that in the tentative of reducing the size of the distro, something is missing and the mouse/keyboard are not fully operating on all systems.
Is there something I can do to debug this issue?

Thanks,
kalo86

[beny]

hi, try rfkill in terminal,maybe on porteus the bluetooth is blocked via hardware or software rfkill show you the status of wifi and bluetooth.
if you have done a full slackware install you have all that you need for the system,bluez and co,start the bluetooth service at boot time in xfce is simple you have to add rc.bluetooth to session and start, plasma...well i don't use it,but i think you have something like xfce4,ok try

[kalo86]

Hi Beny, the mouse and keyboard combo are not Bluetooth.
It's a proprietary receiver USB dongle, but not driven by Bluetooth.
I also tried the Live Slack by Alienbob and mouse and keyboard are working.
There is something wrong in Porteus.
I see a perfect working of the keyboard out of Porteus desktop environment.
For example, by pressing CTRL+ALT+F1 I can type very well with the keyboard and run the commands.
Also the mouse, it's working in the desktop environment, there is no cursor/pointer but if I move on the left bottom corner and I left click the mouse button, the "start" panel opens. Then every other action by pressing the upper/lower arrow on the keyboard is not responsive.

[beny]

ok,install inxi that you can find in slackware,we have to know better the hardware,ok is logitech, but porteus maybe is a lack of firmware for this hardware try this on terminal lsmod | grep -E 'usb|hci'

[Ed_P]

inxi -> https://plug-mirror.rcac.purdue.edu/sla ... arch-1.txz

[Blaze]

Hi kalo86.

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[   16.344930] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: loaded firmware version 83.ec13314b.0 gl-c0-fm-c0-83.ucode op_mode iwlmvm

seems you are have issue with iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-83.ucode firmware.

• 1st copy firmware-iwlwifi-20240305-noarch-1bl.xzm
  to

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  /...your-path/porteus/modules

• 2rd reboot Porteus

P.S. is not bad if it be Porteus 5.01 with latest updates (comes with kernel 6.6.20) http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/port ... eus-v5.01/ (06-Mar-2024)

[kalo86]

inxi -> https://plug-mirror.rcac.purdue.edu/sla ... arch-1.txz

Thank you for the module!

Hi kalo86.

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[   16.344930] iwlwifi 0000:07:00.0: loaded firmware version 83.ec13314b.0 gl-c0-fm-c0-83.ucode op_mode iwlmvm

seems you are have issue with iwlwifi-gl-c0-fm-c0-83.ucode firmware.

• 1st copy firmware-iwlwifi-20240305-noarch-1bl.xzm
  to

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  /...your-path/porteus/modules

• 2rd reboot Porteus

P.S. is not bad if it be Porteus 5.01 with latest updates (comes with kernel 6.6.20) http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/port ... eus-v5.01/ (06-Mar-2024)

Thank you for the firmware!
I'm already running the latest kernel available as update in Porteus repository.

Soon I will post the output of

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inxi -Fxxi 

[kalo86]

Please find here the following outputs in TXT format:

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inxi -Fxxi

https://jumpshare.com/s/Tpp8y2SkEMRatXE3PiHj

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lsmod | grep -E 'usb|hci'

https://jumpshare.com/s/EPNPNHtA7rdmNo2N9pMQ

I had to run both commands outside of the KDE desktop environment because I am not able to open the terminal.
Therefore, I press CTRL+ALT+F1 and run the commands, saving the output files in the USB drive (where Porteus is located and running from).

Thank you for your help!
kalo86

[beny]

hi well i think you have to load the kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko.zst: into the config of porteux do not exist maybe are builded in, take a look at porteus one if you have but lsmod don't show nothing you have 4 modules to load at boot time,maybe blaze can confirm this... wow... very impressive hardware
/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-logitech.ko.zst
/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-dj.ko.zst
/kernel/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.ko.zst

[Ed_P]

Please find here the following outputs in TXT format:

The next time just paste them into your posting with a [ code ] tag at the beginning and a [ /code ] tag at the end of each text file. Like this:

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lsmod | grep -E 'usb|hci'

snd_usb_audio         327680  0
btusb                  57344  0
btrtl                  24576  1 btusb
snd_ump                24576  1 snd_usb_audio
btbcm                  20480  1 btusb
snd_usbmidi_lib        36864  1 snd_usb_audio
btintel                45056  1 btusb
snd_rawmidi            36864  2 snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_ump
bluetooth             679936  4 btrtl,btintel,btbcm,btusb
snd_hwdep              12288  2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm               126976  10 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec,snd_sof,snd_sof_intel_hda_common,snd_compress,snd_soc_core,snd_sof_utils,snd_hda_core

[kalo86]

Thank you Beny, this new PC is a monster, I know! It's incredibly fast, I'm amazed.
I found a possible solution as proposed here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 9&t=370633
For simplicity I report here the possible solution that I'm going to try:

One option: create the following file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-amdgpu.conf with the contents

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Section “Device”
     Identifier “AMD”
     Driver “amdgpu”
     Option “SWCursor” “True”
End Section

Another option: modify the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf (or similarly named file such as 20-amdgpu.conf) and add the following lines

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Section "OutputClass"
	Identifier "AMDgpu"
	MatchDriver "amdgpu"
	Driver "amdgpu"
        Option "SWcursor" "true"
EndSection

I will come back if this solution works.

[kalo86]

Ok, I have a good news but still not the perfect solution.
I created the file usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-amdgpu.conf in the rootcopy and now I see the mouse pointer.
The problem is that it's very laggy, not smooth at all.
The graphic of the KDE environment is correctly loaded as before.

Do you have any suggestions after this small step forward?

[beny]

but you have slackware that work without issue,so i don't know where the solution is,if is the lack of the video driver or the logitech driver,well glad that work