My USB MS Optical wheel mouse doesnt seem to be working with mandrake 9.0. The touch pad works fine. I tried configuring it using mouse drake, where it recognised it as "wheel" under USB. But it still doesnt work. I wud like both the touch pad and optical mouse to work at the same time. Can anyone help me here??

I have also tried the "hid" stuff mentioned in one of the posts, but that doesnt seem to be work either. The mouse part of my XF89Config-4 looks as follows:
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
EndSection

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try this in the XF86Config

Section "ServerLayout"

InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "AlwaysCore"

My MS USB optical mouse is now being recognised by mandrake. I am running into a weird problem now. It works fine rite after i login. But after i start a particular application say like mozilla..it becomes very slow..it takes like 2 seconds for the pointer to move. any pointers??

Thanks for the reply david. it was helpful.