Is there a program I can use to figure out where my mouse is hooked up? I've tried /dev/mouse, /dev/psaux, /dev/input/mouse (which causes nautilus to go haywire in X), /dev/input/mice ... I'm running out of options...

Specs:
Fedora Core 1
ASUS Mainboard (VIA chipset) (detected)
P3 550mhz CPU (detected)
196MB RAM (detected)
PS/2 3 button scrollmouse on KVM switch (NOT detected)
PS/2 104Keyboard on KVM switch (detected)
nVIDIA GeForce2 MX400 32MB AGP (detected AS RIVA TNT2)
ASUS 2.1 Sound (detected)
12GB IDE HDD using 200mb swap, rest as core (detected)
10/100 Realtek NIC (detected)

Hardware drivers I saw installed (that looked odd):
USB Mouse (odd, it doesn't work though )
USB Keyboard (odd, but it works)
RIVA TNT2 (it works, but am I at a lower performance?)

as i was saying, or actually, could I be able to test if the mouse works before I get into X? since it sure does take a while for X to startup sometimes...

Look into gpm.

A general tip is to try these and move around the mouse -- if you get funky characters coming up, then that's the device that points to your mouse.

If you got erratic behavior with one of those locations in X it probably means you had the right device selected, just the wrong protocol-- if it's on auto, try ps/2 or imps/2 instead

--Shade

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