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I have recently made the discovery that Linux is quite a cool operating system.
I have my very own copy installed now of Debian Linux with the 2.4 kernel running. It took quite a long time and a lot of work with a bunch of help from the systems engineer at my work (I work at a co-lo doing help desk ) because of the GeForce4 card in my computer.
Well I'm happy to report KDE is up and running now, however, I'm functioning without a mouse. Realizing that I can't always go to the system engineer with questions I turn to you all.
What should I be doing in order to try to setup my mouse. It's a USB 3 button mouse (made by Creative labs [ same people who make soundblaster ] ). I'm not sure what other information you need, but let me know and I will get it for you.
.. and for modprobing (thus using hotplug is easier):
Code:
modprobe hid
modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe mousedev
A quick test and see if your mouse works, you can type
'cat /dev/input/mice' and try to move your mouse; you should see some garbage in the screen if it works. To end test, press Ctrl-C. If your screen is messed up (happens quite often), type 'reset' and press enter (don't care if you can't see the text you write).
Originally posted by ToniT .. and for modprobing (thus using hotplug is easier):
Code:
modprobe hid
modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe mousedev
A quick test and see if your mouse works, you can type
'cat /dev/input/mice' and try to move your mouse; you should see some garbage in the screen if it works. To end test, press Ctrl-C. If your screen is messed up (happens quite often), type 'reset' and press enter (don't care if you can't see the text you write).
None of these modules seemed to be on my system and I believe the computer is not getting the internet connection.
I did run the cat /dev/input/mice and I was able to get junk on the screen and reset it, but once I did startx and KDE came up no mouse.
If they don't, either write them there, or run 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' and answer to the questions so that there is something like that in the configuration file at the end of the process (/dev/input/mice, protocoll ImPS/2, mouse roll enabled if you have one, no need to emulate third button if you have 3 buttons).
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