mx518 wont work with Slackware 10.2

mminutel · 05-06-2006, 12:04 AM

i have tried a couple of different things and it wont wont work even as a generic mouse. it does not give an option for generic usb mouse. the only one i have seen for usb does not work. anyone have similar problems? also, i need to repair my MBR because my friend scratched up my 2nd install disk so i need to get it from windows again. the way i normally do it will not work right now.

Hondro · 05-06-2006, 06:37 PM

I have G1 mouse and this is my config:
Edit file xorg.conf:
pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf

And try to make like this:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection

Maybe you have installed slack with testing kernel, when i tried that kernel someday the mouse did not worked for me in default configuration.

onebuck · 05-09-2006, 07:50 AM

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Originally Posted by mminutel

also, i need to repair my MBR because my friend scratched up my 2nd install disk so i need to get it from windows again. the way i normally do it will not work right now.

Hi,

Several ways to do this! If you want to repair the mbr with your lilo. Just boot into your kernel, logon as your user then su. Then you should cd /etc. From there you can edit your lilo and add the required stanza. Then do;

Code:

#lilo -v -t -b /dev/hda  #test the lilo device hda
#lilo -v -b /dev/hda     #write lilo device hda

Or you could just do a liloconfig. Be sure to copy the /etc/lilo.conf to /etc/lilo.conf-backup.

Or you could run pkgtool and select the run script option. Here you would select lilo.

If you want to restore the original windows mbr just select the fixboot during the recovery console session of XP. Look here;

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d...s_fixboot.mspx