ps2 mouse not working

duffmckagan · 08-13-2005, 09:20 AM

But, did it work on any of the Live CDs?

boxerboy · 08-13-2005, 09:22 AM

nope didnt work on the live ubuntu cd i never tried the fc4 or fc3 live cd.

duffmckagan · 08-13-2005, 09:27 AM

Well, did you experience any problems, with Windows 2000? or was it working just fine?

Moreover, as it is an Optical Mouse, it won't give you any problems. It would simply die. (IMHO)
How old was that?

boxerboy · 08-13-2005, 09:28 AM

it seemed to be working fine with windows 2k pro

duffmckagan · 08-13-2005, 09:33 AM

Have you tried plugging/using that mouse on some other computer running Windows 2000 / XP?

Try that.
If it works, then it is absolutely weird.
If it doesn't, its death is confirmed and say Adios!

boxerboy · 08-13-2005, 09:37 AM

no i found a usb2 mouse for under 15 us dollars so i picked that up

duffmckagan · 08-13-2005, 09:42 AM

Okay.
LOL....I was just trying to make use of your Previous Mouse.

If problem is solved, and you don't want to do that, forget it dude.

boxerboy · 08-13-2005, 09:47 AM

thank you for your help but i only paid like 6 bucks for that ps2 mouse so when i found that other mouse worked fine on it i figured its a replacable mouse

duffmckagan · 08-13-2005, 09:58 AM

Good.

geetarista · 09-19-2005, 12:21 PM

I'm having this problem as well. I can get around it by unplugging my mouse, plugging in another mouse, and re-plugging my mouse back in. I haven't tried unplugging both the keyboard and mouse yet, though. I was hoping someone has a workaround for this.

Thanks!

boxerboy · 09-19-2005, 02:25 PM

sorry i dont know i gave up found cheap mouse bought it and works great.

J.R. · 10-24-2005, 02:44 PM

(referring to my post on this list on August 12)

Hi,

for those interested - I managed to actually fix the problem with my ps/2 mouse that only came to life after unplugging and replugging the keyboard and the mouse itself. The clue was to go into the BIOS and to disable there both USB keyboard support and USB mouse support. That worked for me. Actually, if I plug in my USB mouse under FC4 (I upgraded in the meanwhile) it still works too.

hope this helps some of you

regards
J.R.

chingadero · 11-14-2005, 02:32 PM

disabling all USB support in the BIOS fixed this problem for me in FC3. There must be a better solution.

sawadeekap2233 · 12-04-2006, 05:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by J.R.

I haven't fiddled with mine (at least, not recently) - in fact, I only tried it after having read it somewhere (after a lengthy search on the web) and it proved to work for me - however, I don't consider it to be a final solution. In fact, it's the main reason why I'm still using RH9.
By the way, are you suggesting that a hardware problem may be at the origin of my problem? If so, why only FC3 (I'm also running RH9, W98, W2K, XP).

J.R.

yes why only in FC3 ? I also hv win98 and FC3 together in the same box. Is problematic
only in FC3 ?maybe FC3 is very buggy ? I using serial mouse-which shud be the easiest to
config.. and yet it cant work..editing xorg.conf will only worsen the problem.
Has anybody found a more reliable solution ? FC3 has 'mousecong' command. When I used it,
it always reply OK, but when U go back to the system, its frozen again. its v frustrating..
I using more of windows now, no problem with the same mouse.

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