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Today i've installed Slack 9.1 but i have problem using Intellimouse (v4) USB in X.
In fact dev/mouse is correct as cat it returns mouse movements. The problem is that when X starts, mouse cursor only moves vertically when i move it horizontally.
Tried other protocol settings without success.
Of course gmp is disabled.
I had exactly the same problem, and clicking the buttons moves the cursor right accross the screen?
I tried every mouse protocol, eventually gave up and bought a logitech which is much nicer than the intellimouse. It might be worth trying to upgrade to the latest version of XFree86 (4.4.0), that might solve the problem
Mine works fine. I do not use hotplug. I went into /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncommented out the modules that I wanted to run. On mine, I uncommented hid, mousedev, keybdev, usb-uhci. Then run mouseconfig and pick the usb mouse. I then edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and put for Protocol , the IMPS/2 entry listed above. For Device, I put /dev/input/mice. Another option you probably want "ZAxisMapping" "5 4" for scrolling. HTH
i wanted to clarify my question. the issue was solved by running the command 'rmmod usbmouse', as posted by dhbiker. this solves the issue for the current boot. if the system is rebooted the issue returns. if you run this and your box stays up for a year you might be in trouble when you finally do reboot. this brings up two questions:
01. how would you make this change permanent? remove the usbmouse module from the bootup process.
02. i looked in the rc.modules file and the usbmodules line was commented out. i also looked in the '/lib/modules/2.4.31' directory and don't see any reference to the usbmouse module (bundled?). so what is launching this and how do i stop this and other modules from loading?
I presume it's being loaded by hotplug. The way to prevent it from ever being loaded is to add the module to the blacklist file (IIRC it's in /etc/hotplug/blacklist)
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