Re: Mouse

[Bob Underwood <mgkrebs1@home.com>]

the mouse is ps/2 and GPM is not installed on either box.  also there is no 
/dev/input/* on either box..  what puzzles me is why it runs on one and not 
the other.

bob


On Sunday 21 October 2001 13:24, you wrote:
> ps/2 mouse ore usb? if usb you need some extra kernel features. does
> /dev/input/mice exist? if not, you need to create it with mknod. does gpm
> run?
>
> patrick
>
> On Sunday, 21. October 2001 18:43, Bob Underwood wrote:
> > I have an interesting situation with the mouse on the little woman's box.
> > I recently swapped her old two-button for a three-button Logitech mouse. 
> > The new mouse doesn't work on her box, but it does on mine.  The relevant
> > sections of the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file are identical.   Early on, I
> > did notice that her keyboard was wrongly identified as pc105 (instead of
> > pc101), so I corrected that, restarted the X server and it worked until
> > the next time she booted.
> >
> > So, for now, she's back to the two button mouse.  This is on the most
> > current woody, with KDE.  Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > from XF86Config-4
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > 	Identifier	"Configured Mouse"
> > 	Driver		"mouse"
> > 	Option		"CorePointer"
> > 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/psaux"
> > 	Option		"Protocol"		"PS/2"
> > 	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
> > 	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
> > EndSection
> >
> > Section "InputDevice"
> > 	Identifier	"Generic Mouse"
> > 	Driver		"mouse"
> > 	Option		"SendCoreEvents"	"true"
> > 	Option		"Device"		"/dev/input/mice"
> > 	Option		"Protocol"		"ImPS/2"
> > 	Option		"Emulate3Buttons"	"true"
> > 	Option		"ZAxisMapping"		"4 5"
> >
> > tia
> >
> > bob