SuSE10.0 on Gateway 600X
 

Hello, everyone
I am a newbie in Linux. I just installed SuSe 10 and Xp. Yet, the mouse starts acting abnormally right now. I can't do much about it. When I move the mouse, SuSE think I scroll. Sometimes, it is even worse, everytime, I move the mouse, without seeing the cursor, some windows just pop up. Does anyone know what happened to my system? Any input would be appreciate.

The file that controls this is /etc/X11/xorg.conf. To fix this we need to know what kind of mouse is it (USB, PS/2), or is this a touchpad?

The mouse is USB type. But both touchpad and mouse have the same symptom

Lets get the USB mouse working first (I don't have a touch pad). This is a section of my xorg.conf that I modified for allowing both the USB mouse and the built-in device (like a PS/2 mouse) work at the same time:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "USBMouse" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

You want to just add the line with the "USBMouse" if it is not already in yours.

Next, add the following if it is not already there, after the Section that refers to your mouse. It should look just like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USBMouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" ## MOUSE_WHEEL
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "5" ## MOUSE_BUTTONS
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"

EndSection


It is a good idea to make a backup copy of xorg.conf before you edit it. Just do:

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/workingxorg.conf

That way you can get back to where you are with:

mv /etc/X11/workingxorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf

After making changes just hit Control-Alt-Backspace and it will re-read xorg.conf when it restarts X.

Post your xorg.conf when you are done. Good luck.