To configure a mouse, use /usr/sbin/mouseconfig
/usr/bin/X11/Xconfigurator will work, but no sense in using a cannon
to drill a small hole.
Xconfigurator is Red Hat's tool to configure your windowing system,
X11 (XFree86). There is also XFree86config, which is what comes with the
XFree86 package. Xconfigurator will use the values in /etc/sysconfig/mouse
or else it will assume a Microsoft compatible mouseon device /dev/cua0
(according to man page).
I have a PS/2 mouse. My /etc/sysconfig/mouse looks like:
FULLNAME="Generic - 3 Button Mouse (PS/2)"
MOUSETYPE="ps/2"
XEMU3="no"
XMOUSETYPE="PS/2"
(I'm not emulating 3 buttons (XEMU3="no")
It's good to know that most things can be configured by hand if you don't
remember what tool to use. Tools don't always get things right and
occasionally you have to go in by hand and fix them. Nice thing about Linux:
you CAN go in by hand to configure most things if you want.
In this case, I'd just use mouseconfig first.
Also, you can (almost) always get to a console window by:
Ctrl-Alt-F2, logging in as root, run mouseconfig, or Xconfigurator, or
list processes and kill them, in case your mouse or windows seem to be
locked up. Ctrl-Alt-F7 gets you back to your main windows session.
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Jerry Winegarden OIT/Technical Support Duke University
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Jimmie Brandon wrote:
> I have a Serial Mouse S/N:7M0462641
> CE FCC ID:IOW CM-290F
> Made In China.
>
> It has a "PC" and "MS" switch on the bottom of the
> mouse. The mouse does not work in either position.
>
> I also, have a AWCER mouse with the same kind of
> switch on the bottom and Red Hat 6.2 does not
> recognize it either when I get to the GUI.
>
> Also, when the screen saver starts, I try to stop it
> by pressing any key on the keyboard, but the screen
> saver does not stop. Am I missing something here
> folks?
> I have reloaded RH 6.2 and I get the same thing. I
> have also, reformatted my hard drive several times.
> I am using a generic monitor, a 4mb video card and a
> 56k modem blaster modem. The CPU is a AMD K-6 MMX
> 450.
> I, also, have a ZIP drive, in an external case, hooked
> up to my parallel port which RH 6.2 does not
> recognize.
>
> Am I S.O.L. folks? Where do I start to try and get
> my Red Hat working so that I can contribute something
> meaningful to this wonderful group?
>
> Jimmie
>
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