On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 03:26:08PM -0800, Brian Lucas wrote:
>
> Howdy!
>
> I recently plugged an optical Microsoft USB Intellimouse into my Redhat 8.0
> laptop and it works like a charm right out of the gate. Kudzu detected it
> as well at the next boot and I configured it and again it worked great.
> Then, I unplugged the mouse while the laptop was down, booted it back up,
> and Kudzu informed me that I could remove the configuration for the USB
> Mouse, ignore the fact that it was missing, and something else that I don't
> recall offhand. In my haste, I told it to save the settings and ignore the
> fact that it wasn't there. Mistake.
>
> The touch pad that normally worked now no longer does. I didn't test the
> touchpad functionality while the USB Mouse wsa in so I'm not sure at what
> point it became disabled. I did an ls -l /dev/mouse and noticed that it was
> linked to input/mouse. I looked around to see if I could find a way to
> reactivate the touchpad and uninstall the USB mouse but am probably missing
> something. I decided to remove /dev/mouse, reboot, and go into text mode.
>
> I relink'd /dev/mouse with
>
> ln psaux /dev/mouse
I think that's right.
> The touchpad began working again but in a strange way. It jumped around a
> lot and never settled down the way I'd like. My suspicion is that I've
> linked it to the wrong device. I ran redhat-config-mouse and set it back to
I think it was defined as the wrong type of mouse. Different kinds
of rodents emit different data streams and that is exactly the symptoms
you get when X (or gpm) is expecting a type different than the one
you got.
perhaps you should make a note of both the gpm settings and the mouse
(pointer) settings in your XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file, so you
can reconfigure appropriately depending on which is in place.
Although letting kudzu do it may work and would then be easier.
> the Intellimouse so I am back at square one with the touchpad disabled.
>
> Any thoughts on how to uninstall a USB Mouse once Kudzu has set it up and it
> has been told to ignore it when it detects that it's not there rather than
> prompt to uninstall it?
>
> Also, what should I link /dev/mouse to for a standard touchpad?
having gotten it working again, now look at what /dev/mouse is linked
to (i hypothesize it'll be /dev/psaux), and as suggested above also
note the gpm and X settings for future reference..
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