Thank you everyone that responded. I really would have thought that mouse.conf was a file common to linux systems and not just a distrobution.
I'm sure that Richards suggestion would have worked out fine, I just went about it with a different means. Someone suggested I use Mandrakes "drakmouse" program. I logged in as root, typed in "drakmouse" and got a gui configurater for "mice". I chose Richards suggestion of Generic 3 button PS2 mouse, rebooted my machine and my mouse worked. I was very happy. Thank you all for googleling and looking into my issue. It was very frustrating for me. Now I have hosed X from starting up. I'm going to post to the list with a new message. -Steve --- pa3gcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 19 June 2004 02:58, Steven Ackerman > wrote: > > Please see inline comments: > > > > --- pa3gcu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I chose > tty0 > > > > (com1? > > > > > > I am sure you mean /dev/ttyS0 not /dev/tty0 > > > > I guess so. Whatever it was doesn't really matter. > It > > wasn't right. I believe it was the linux > equivelant of > > Com port 1. You would probably know better than I. > > > > > > I have installed M9.1 previously and I believe > > I did some searching on google for your computer, i > could not find any site > which actually stated what protocol the mouse use's, > however my impression is > that it is a normal ps2 mouse. > > I would do the following; > > Start mandrake into init 3 > I cant remember which bootloader mandrake 9.1 used, > if its lilo you need to > type the name of the boot image and 3 after it asin; > linux 3 > replace linux with the name of the boot image. > If its grub i belive all you need to do is select > the boot image with the > arrow up/down keys and then type in 3 in the > "options" box. > Hit enter of course. > > After booting login as root and type 'mouseconfig' > Select "Generic PS2 Wheel Mouse" > That takes care of the symlinks in /dev/ > > Your XF86Config(-4) file found in /etc/X11 may also > need editing, a typical > entry for a wheel mouse is; > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Mouse1" > Driver "mouse" > Option "Corepointer" > Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" > Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" > Option "Buttons" "5" > Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off" > Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" > EndSection > > After all that type init 5 to start X and see what > happens. > > -- > If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because > they > try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows > community > is built on organized crime. > > Regards Richard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at > http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
