Hi all,

I'm having problems getting my Microsoft Comfort Optical 3000 mouse to work under Slackware.

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mo...s.aspx?pid=041

All I get is the mouse pointer sitting in the centre of the screen and going vertically up and down when I move the mouse in any direction. I used to use a MS Intellimouse which worked fine using these settings in xorg.conf:

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Button" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

I've tried altering the above configuration for this mouse, for example changing 'Device' to "/dev/input/mice" and also commenting out "Button" and "ZAxisMapping" but with no luck.

Anyway, just asking in the off chance someone has this mouse or has had a similar problem in the past.

Thanks for any help you can offer.

Robert

Do you have either the "CorePointer" or "SendCoreEvents" options enabled for the device in your ServerLayout section?

You can also try using the evdev driver. evdev is a relatively new "all-in-one" device driver that does away with most of the xorg.conf configuration options needed with other drivers. It should be as simple as:

None of the other config options should be necessary, and probably won't even work anyway. If your device has extra multimedia buttons or other fancy input functions, switch the device to "/dev/input/event*"; where "event*" is the event number shown in the "handlers" line for your mouse in "cat /proc/bus/input/devices".

xorg is in the process of developing a true device hotplugging system that uses hal and dbus, and in time you won't be configuring these things through xorg.conf, but through hal policy files. I've been playing with it and it's kind of working now, but it's a bit buggy still and not enabled by default in most systems. Give it another year though.

Thanks, David! I'll give that a try later and let you know how I get on.

Thanks again!

Robert