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SnowSurfAir - Did you eventually get your Gyration Suite running? I recently purchased the Gyration Compact Keyboard Suite and am unable to get the mouse working. The keyboard worked immediately, however after A number of evenings worth of effort, I'm still no further along with the mouse.
If you got yours working - could you please post what you did?
No I never did and no one has told me how to re setup my old mouse and keyboard because i cant do anything. Im still workin on makin it work. by any chance do you know how to setup redhat for a PS/2 mouse and a usb keyboard?
Insert boot disk. Select 'installation' or 'update system' or some such thing (I use suse so it may be different). Hopefully your mouse will be detected and your keyboard too. Simply go through the automatic system update process.
Your mouse and keyboard should now work.
(this is what I always try first after messing stuff up)
Who installed Redhat on your machine? Ask fo their assistance?
Are you sure you are using the correct disk?
You may need to set BIOS to read cd at startup.
See your motherboard manual for instructions on how to do this
might help you. Basically, what I found to cause troubles on my system was hwconfig detecting the mouse to be ps/2 but having X86config looking for USB.
What I would suggest is that you go to etc/sysconfig/hwconfig. You might want to backup hwconfig before you edit it, but it's your call. Go into hwconfig and try to find something like this:
Just look for something that says "mouse" and delete the entire entry. Then reboot. Kudzu should then redetect your mouse, and change your X86Config to match it. This accomplishes the same thing that zaphoid suggested, but his method wouldn't work for me (I also use RedHat), as RedHat didn't find anything to upgrade and so didn't make any changes. I'm guessing that because you have Redhat, it won't work for you either. Good luck.
Oh, and if anyone is feeling charitable and has a USB mouse, I would greatly appriciate it if they could post their mouse entry from hwconfig in my mouse troubles thread, as Kudzu isn't detecting it properly for me :/
Well, I think the problem I'm having has to do with the fact that the Gyration USB Keyboard and Mouse both connect through the same receiver, having only a single USB plug. This means that signals for both the keyboard and the mouse reach the PC on a single USB port - and it seems as though Linux can't figure this out.
Today I tried running the Mandrake setup again from CD1 and ended up trying every single mouse selection the installer offered...to no avail.
It looks like kudzu has detected it properly. Post your X86Config (usually in etc/X11/) and we'll see if the problem is there. Although kudzu should of configured X86Config properly as well :/
See how the mouse line has "Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"" in the mouse section? That is telling linux your mouse is on the PS/2 port. But you have a usb mouse. So... change that line to:
Mandrake with wireless Gyration Keyboard/Mouse Suite
oh joy, oh bliss
Almost magically, my Gyration mouse is now working. What I did last night is to plug in a PS2 Mouse, boot the system and let Mandrake autodetect it. Shut down the system, removed the PS2 mouse and then restarted. Mandrake then autodetected the wireless mouse. Don't ask me why it didn't work before...I'm sure I was making some kind of silly mistake...
THANK YOU! who'd thought it would be that simple. It works! Now maby one of you know this, I have two computers a Windows and my Redhat I only have one monitor, How can I share the mouse combo and Monitor between the two comps? I have a KVM splitterbut Im not sure if that would work. THANKS again.
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