Mouse does not work

Fanboy · 10-14-2006, 07:48 AM

Hi everyone

I'm completely new to linux and have just installed it on a partition on my computer. At the instalation the mouse worked fine, but when I boot up Linux it fails to work from the login screen. I have no Idea of how I can sort this.

Does anyone have any ideas how I could sort this?

weibullguy · 10-14-2006, 08:10 AM

Does the mouse completely not work or is just the pointer invisible? There is (was) a bug with xorg and nVidia chipsets that caused the pointer to become invisible. It's an easy fix, just add this

Code:

        Option  "HWCursor" "off"

to the "Device" section of xorg.conf.

Fanboy · 10-14-2006, 11:14 AM

I can see the pointer but I can only move it using the number pad. Also I'm not sure how to change xorg.conf or even bring it up

weibullguy · 10-14-2006, 11:59 AM

Use an editor to edit xorg.conf. Either vi, vim, nano, joe, emacs, etc. I use nano, so I do it like this

Code:

nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf

. If you just want to look at it, do this

Code:

cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | less

tourbike · 10-15-2006, 09:54 PM

hi i am also a newbie, my mouse doesnt work when I turn on the computer and I have to just unplug the mouse and plug it back in everytime for it to work.

I am using an fedora 5 operating system with built in graphics card on the motherboard.

thanks

Fanboy · 10-24-2006, 08:46 AM

I've finally managed to get the damn thing to work by reinstalling the system about a dozen times under different setups.

It worked when I unticked the option to use the hardware accelerator for the mouse pointer (or something with similar wording) when configuring my graphics card.

Thanks for your help guys