Re: Getting a usb mouse to work in xwindows

[Cajus Pollmeier <C.Pollmeier@gmx.net>]

On Friday, 3. August 2001 20:32, John Marr wrote:
> I am hoping someone can help me:
>
> I have a usb MS intellimouse on my laptop. When I boot into debian, the usb
> mouse driver loads, but the mouse does not respond to moving the usb mouse.
> Is there a special section that i need to add to my xf86config-4 file to
> get the usb mouse to work?

I'm doing this in my XF86Config for a "normal" usb mouse:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier       "USB Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "SendCoreEvents"        "true"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
        Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "true"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

After that you've to add the USB mouse to the ServerLayout as shown below

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen          "Default Screen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "USB Mouse"
        InputDevice     "Generic Mouse"
EndSection

Hope this helps,
-Cajus