Re: installing mouse

[John Stevenson]

If you really get nowhere with your mouse, before you abandon debian you 
could try using Knoppix (a debian based distrobution) from 
http://www.knoppix.net/ especially if you are happy to download a CD 
image ~600MB.  If not, you may as well ignore the rest of this email.

You can run Knoppix completely from CD (i.e. it doesn't write anything 
to your hard drive) and it also has hardware detection so it should pick 
up most/all of your hardwar, particularly your mouse.

If your mouse works under Knoppix it will work with Debian, just take a 
look at the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 when running Knoppix.  Somewhere 
in there will be a 'Section InputDevice' line followed by some info 
about how your mouse is setup.

For an example, here is a snippet from my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

Section "InputDevice"
       Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
       Driver          "mouse"
       Option          "Protocol" "MouseManPlusPS/2"
       Option          "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
       Option          "Device" "/dev/psaux"
       Option          "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Unless you have a logitec wheel mouse, you may have slightly different 
values for the Options, most noticably you need to know which protocol 
is being used.

If you find several of these sections, look at the begining of the 
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file and it will tell you which one is actually 
being used.

Hope this helps.
Johnny.
Subject:
Re: installing mouse
From:
David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:
Tue, 24 Jun 2003 06:46:32 +0200
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 05:27:17PM -0400, Leonard Stevens wrote:
 

I am a new user or in the act of trying to be one. My problem at least at
this stage is I can't get Linux to recognize my bus mouse. I made the
mistake of installing xwindows and it goes straight there but without a
mouse. I told it in setup that it was a bus ps/2 mouse but it could care
less. I couldn't figure a way out so I reformatted the disk and started
over. This time I made the mistake of installing the desktop and had the
same result. I ounce more reformatted and am about to try a third time. How
in gods name do I get it to install a mouse driver??????
Thanks anyone who can help.
Leonard Stevens
   

 



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