Re: Wireless Mouse/ USB selection

pa3gcu
2004-06-19T07:47:39Z

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