mandrake 8.0 usb mouse problem

[seind]

installation went fine with the mouse working but on reboot the mouse is dead.
its a logitech optical mouse.

i also have a usb network adapter by 3com, any chance of that working?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

make sure you have usbcore, usb-uhci (or ohci), hid, and usbmouse modules loaded, check with lsmod and if they're not there run modprobe <modulename>. add to /etc/modules to make them load at boot.

mkdir /dev/input

mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63

reconfigure X to use /dev/input/mice as the device for your mouse, and "ImPS/2" as the protocol. should do it.

 

[seind]

will try this, thanks

 

[seind]

modprobe usbcore, usb-ohci, hid, usbmouse
then logout and login again and mouse works
on reboot must repeat procedure 🙁

how to add to --> /etc/modules

 

[galt]

I had bad experiences with mice and Mandrake. It wouldnt recognize my wheel (mandrake 8.1 and 8.2). Neither would it recognize my friends mouse wheel when I put it on her system. Both of us have microsoft mice (explorer grey and white ones). Another friend of mine had a logitech mouse, he has the same problem. I switched to redhat, no problems since. I'm not saying that switching distros is your solution. Just that I've had lots of problems with mandrake and mice before. Oh, did I mention that in mandrake my mouse would randomly stop working and only work again after rebooting?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

just add the module names to /etc/modules with any old editor (pico, vi, etc), one on each line. for your situation:

#-----------example /etc/modules-------------
usbcore
usb-ohci
hid
usbmouse
#------------end example-----------

that will cause them to load on boot. as far as wheels go, you need to get your 4th and 5th buttons set up (thats what the wheel is considered, 2 more buttons, one for up and one for down).

mouse section in XFree86Config (or XFree86Config-4) should look something like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

that ZAxisMapping part is what does it. if you have a more exotic mouse with 4 or 5 buttons, AND a wheel. the "4 5" might need to be "5 6" or "6 7" or whatever, i've never had anything more than a 2button+wheel mouse myself.