Re: Wireless Mouse/ USB selection

Steven Ackerman
2004-06-20T00:18:06Z

Thank you everyone that responded. I really would have
thought that mouse.conf was a file common to linux
systems and not just a distrobution.

I'm sure that Richards suggestion would have worked
out fine, I just went about it with a different means.
Someone suggested I use Mandrakes "drakmouse" program.
I logged in as root, typed in "drakmouse" and got a
gui configurater for "mice". I chose Richards
suggestion of Generic 3 button PS2 mouse, rebooted my
machine and my mouse worked.

I was very happy. Thank you all for googleling and
looking into my issue. It was very frustrating for me.

Now I have hosed X from starting up. I'm going to post
to the list with a new message.

-Steve

--- pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
> On Saturday 19 June 2004 02:58, Steven Ackerman
> wrote:
> > Please see inline comments:
> >
> > --- pa3gcu <pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> wrote:
> > > > I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I chose
> tty0
> > > > (com1?
> > >
> > > I am sure you mean /dev/ttyS0 not /dev/tty0
> >
> > I guess so. Whatever it was doesn't really matter.
> It
> > wasn't right. I believe it was the linux
> equivelant of
> > Com port 1. You would probably know better than I.
> >
> > > > I have installed M9.1 previously and I believe
>
> I did some searching on google for your computer, i
> could not find any site
> which actually stated what protocol the mouse use's,
> however my impression is
> that it is a normal ps2 mouse.
>
> I would do the following;
>
> Start mandrake into init 3
> I cant remember which bootloader mandrake 9.1 used,
> if its lilo you need to
> type the name of the boot image and 3 after it asin;
> linux 3
> replace linux with the name of the boot image.
> If its grub i belive all you need to do is select
> the boot image with the
> arrow up/down keys and then type in 3 in the
> "options" box.
> Hit enter of course.
>
> After booting login as root and type 'mouseconfig'
> Select "Generic PS2 Wheel Mouse"
> That takes care of the symlinks in /dev/
>
> Your XF86Config(-4) file found in /etc/X11 may also
> need editing, a typical
> entry for a wheel mouse is;
>
> Section "InputDevice"
> Identifier "Mouse1"
> Driver "mouse"
> Option "Corepointer"
> Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
> Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
> Option "Buttons" "5"
> Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
> Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
> EndSection
>
> After all that type init 5 to start X and see what
> happens.
>
> --
> If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because
> they
> try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows
> community
> is built on organized crime.
>
> Regards Richard
> pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
> http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
>
>
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