Need help with a microsoft 6000 laser mouse

kschulen · 03-05-2007, 12:02 PM

Hello, I am running Debian Sarge 3.1 with updates installed. I recently purchased a microsoft 6000 laser mouse and tried getting it to work with this distro. Everything works fine except when i go to move the mouse it registers as a middle mouse button click. I have tried using knoppix and it works fine in there and tried using the config for knoppix in debian but same issue. Any help would be great. Thanks

kschulen · 03-08-2007, 10:23 AM

come on someone has to know what is going on with this issue

nlgordon · 03-22-2007, 09:46 AM

I'm in the same boat you are, RHEL 4 WS fresh install. Here is my config:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier  "Mouse0"
Driver      "mouse"
Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option  "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

I tried using the event driver, but I don't think RHEL 4 has it.

nlgordon · 03-22-2007, 04:42 PM

RHEL 5 seems to work which includes xorg 7.1. My assumption is that there was a bug fix somewhere in there...

kschulen · 05-02-2007, 08:39 AM

yeah i finally dumped sarge since debian etch is out that includes xorg now instead of the old xfree86 and it works just fine now

kschulen · 05-02-2007, 08:41 AM

as far as i can see the problem was with xfree86 something with hardware handling but xorg fixes alot of my issues and everything works great now. so if anyone else has this problem i would suggest first to see if you are running xfree and if you are...upgrade to xorg