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I would like some help getting mouse support in Mandrake's 9.0 version. I'm using the infamous(e) MS Wireless Intellimouse Explorer.
I've had odd amounts of success getting the mouse to work, ranging from the standard "moves up and down, and inches to the right when I click mouse buttons" to "Eureka!" to "nothing at all".
XWindows comes up fine, but my mouse no longer works at all. If I switch to a text only session, I can remove the "usbmouse" "hid" and "usb-usci" (sp?) modules, and then readd them with "hid" first, and that worked for about an hour.
Then I fiddled with my XF86Config files, and now they won't work at all. I'm going to post the relevent sections of some of the files, in the hopes that you folks can help me set things right.
I'm posting the files in seperate replies here, in the hopes that this will make them easier to read.
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a `#', and everything on the line after them are ignored.
NVdriver
scsi_hostadapter
hid
Next file
/etc/modules.conf
probeall scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias eth0 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 audigy
probeall hid usb-interface usb-uhci
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
Next File (with some stuff cut out, like display adaptor refresh rates)
/etc/X11/XF86Config
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.so"
EndSection
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