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Thread ID: 51160 2004-11-13 08:19:00 Linux laptop likes its mousepad too much. personthingy (1670) Press F1
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291373 2004-11-14 06:11:00 I agree with Chill, look for SAX2, I have no idea where it will be in Suse but, try Settings and have your root password ready, expand the + next Input Devices > Mouse and go to it.

Murray P 		Murray P (44)
291374 2004-11-14 06:29:00 man this sure is looking technical :p Prescott (11)
291375 2004-11-14 08:50:00 JenC------- I copied the relevant lines over, this created various problems with bad keywords that prevented "X" from starting. So after various lines were rewritten, X stopped complaining, and i'm back!

Guess how many mice i have?????

One!!!!!

Chill and Murray-------- I tried SaX2 just before i tried the hand editing. I don't suppose i need to state the success rate.

Prescott---------- Yeah it's getting more technical than the TV remote control thingy!

And just for a laugh.. the keyboard mappings messed up now! this is an "at" " and this is hash £....... la la la la la

:-)
Chris 		personthingy (1670)
291376 2004-11-14 08:53:00 im glad it worked for you :D
hopefully my linux experience will be a goodie 		Prescott (11)
291377 2004-11-14 09:01:00 Well at least the system is back on "English US"

But this is turning into a real good learning experience!!!!!!

:-)
Chris 		personthingy (1670)
291378 2004-11-14 14:05:00 Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "ButtonNumber" "5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Vendor" "Sysp"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

^^ Try setting:
Option "Protocol" "Auto" 		Chilling_Silence (9)
291379 2004-11-14 17:13:00 Hey Chill!

I'll make that change later , once i'm awake.

BTW the all new "Improved with orange, for more cleaning power!" version of the configuration file is:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "ButtonNumber" "3"
Option "Buttons" "3"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
EndSection

Same result, of course!

:-)
Chris 		personthingy (1670)
291380 2004-11-14 17:32:00 Hi Again Chill......

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Name" "Autodetection"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
EndSection

Same result, i'm wondering if i should try

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

But i'll put some sleep between now and doing that!

:-)
Chris 		personthingy (1670)
291381 2004-11-14 17:49:00 If you:
ls -la /dev | grep mouse

You should see it symlinking to /dev/input/mice anyway :-/

I would still be inclined to nick off with the Knoppix one.. Either that or play around in Yast and/or SaX and see what results you have.

Cheers


Chill. 		Chilling_Silence (9)
291382 2004-11-15 01:28:00 Try lsmod
modprobe hid
modprobe usbmouse
modprobe mouse
lsmod too see if HID is enabled in the compilation. It should be, but ...
cat /proc/bus/usb/devicesandtail -20 /var/log/messages just after plugging the mouse in might show what's happening.

My trick when I had troubles with X11 configuration was to boot Knoppix, check that the screen worked properly, then copy the X11 config file to a floppy. Then I booted the Red hat, and copied the config file back in.

I have a horrible suspicion that that "do not edit" file might be rewritten at each boot. I couild be wrong. ;-) That sort of helpful thing is often called "user friendly" :_|

The standard thing seems to be the X11 config pretty much unchanged and link /dev/mouse to suit. But you need to have the modules ("drivers" loaded for the thing to work. 		Graham L (2)
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