Mouse config "newbie"

pdohman · 08-19-2003, 07:51 PM

Hello
I have annoying mouse configuration issue. After a reboot my red hat 2.4 system seems to loose the mouse config.The mouse works but sluggishly. The only fix I have discovered is to use the mouse configuration under system settings.The correct mouse "Wheel Mouse (ps/2)" is selected but I have to click OK in order for the mouse to handle correctly.Any suggestions are really appreciated.
Thank you
Patrick

rmartine · 08-19-2003, 08:51 PM

Taking a stab at this but....

Is mouseconfig actually writing to XF86Config?? If it isn't, whenever you reboot you'd have to re-run that utility.

What are you X mouse/pointer entries on startup??

PsychosisNode · 08-19-2003, 08:55 PM

I have a PS/2 wheel mouse, the entry in XF86Congfig-4 for me is:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" //change to your device
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" //mapps wheel
EndSection

Hope this helps!

gte269 · 08-19-2003, 10:32 PM

Make sure you're root too.

pdohman · 08-23-2003, 07:51 PM

This is how my XF86Config looks right now:
Do you recommend removing one of the devices from the config?

Section "InputDevice"
# Modified by mouseconfig
# Modified by mouseconfig
# Modified by mouseconfig
# Modified by mouseconfig
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Thank you

PsychosisNode · 08-23-2003, 08:06 PM

For a system with multiple mice, there's a server layout bit lower down, from my system (one mouse) it goes:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
EndSection

The mouse you want to use should be the CorePointer. If one of the mouse input device entries is redundant then it should be removed or commented out.

You may like to Google for this and related topics, or look on the X website, http://www.xfree86.org/ It's quite possible to have many mice connected at once and use them in "mixed mode".....