Hello. I am not new to Linux, but I am new to SlackWare. So I ordered the SlackWare 12.1 install DVD. I preformed a full install, and every thing went fine. I finished the installation and rebooted. Everything went fine, I logged in and typed startx to start the KDE desktop. When KDE came up The mouse cursor would not move at all. I tried to configure it many different ways after searching a lot of other slackware mouse problems, but none of them worked. Also when I run xorgconfig, X will not start up at all. X will start up when I complete install without running xorgconfig.

SETUP:
mouse - PS/2 optical laser mouse
intel classic motherboard with on board graphics
core 2 duo processor
2gb memory
80g sata hard disk drive

I will greatly appreciate any help.

(I didn't know if this should be here or the Linux-Newbie Section)

Post the following:

/var/log/Xorg.0.log

output of lsmod

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Have you looked at /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse?
AND
Made sure that there are no editor backup files remaining in the /etc/modprobe.d directory?

Try disabling gpm if it's still on, so run
then reboot.

Also try running 'xorgsetup' instead of 'xorgconfig'.

You can try xorgsetup (or xorgcfg, I don't remember right now), it will probe your hardware and generate a suitable Xorg configuration file for you.

Regarding the mouse, which kernel did you install? Huge?

/var/log/Xorg.0.log:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf:

I looked at /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse, looked fine. How do you know if there are editor backups? I ran chmod a-x /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm, did not fix the problem. I ran xorgsetup and it messed up X in the same way as xorgconfig. I had to copy the Xorg backup file to xorg.conf to get X to start again.
Oh, and the Kernal I installed was the default, I believe it was Hugesmp or something.

This is what I use for your type of mouse.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Hope this of some help.

thanks but still no luck. I can't really think of any thing else to do. Could it be a hardware problem? Every thing worked fine under Ubuntu, Debian, and Mandriva(same exact machine). So I don't think it could be a hardware problem.

Well, I got a usb mouse off of another computer, hooked it up, set it to usb mouse, and it works fine. I will probably just keep using a usb mouse, but I would still like to know what the problem could have been.

Thanks for all the advice.

You could try changing the mouse protocol in /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse from 'imps' to one of:
'bare' - a very basic setup, but may help with determining if you have a problem elsewhere.
'exps' - Explorer mice
'any'
or even commenting out the protocol line entirely, so that the kernel options are used.
By the way, what is the exact brand and model of the mouse?

PS- Be aware that ALL files in /etc/modprobe.d are examined when looking for information for modprobe. It is a common problem that when using an editor a backup file willl be left in the directory, causing unintended actions. You can recognise these by the .~ file name extension.

Slackware by default loads the psmouse module with the "proto=imps" option. It's a bit of a long shot, but you could try editing /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse and changing the line to read:

You'll need to reboot or rmmod and insmod to reload the module for it to take effect.