Mouse does not work
 

Hi everyone

I'm completely new to linux and have just installed it on a partition on my computer. At the instalation the mouse worked fine, but when I boot up Linux it fails to work from the login screen. I have no Idea of how I can sort this.

Does anyone have any ideas how I could sort this?

Does the mouse completely not work or is just the pointer invisible? There is (was) a bug with xorg and nVidia chipsets that caused the pointer to become invisible. It's an easy fix, just add this to the "Device" section of xorg.conf.

I can see the pointer but I can only move it using the number pad. Also I'm not sure how to change xorg.conf or even bring it up

Use an editor to edit xorg.conf. Either vi, vim, nano, joe, emacs, etc. I use nano, so I do it like this. If you just want to look at it, do this

same problem
 

hi i am also a newbie, my mouse doesnt work when I turn on the computer and I have to just unplug the mouse and plug it back in everytime for it to work.

I am using an fedora 5 operating system with built in graphics card on the motherboard.

thanks

:newbie:

I've finally managed to get the damn thing to work by reinstalling the system about a dozen times under different setups.

It worked when I unticked the option to use the hardware accelerator for the mouse pointer (or something with similar wording) when configuring my graphics card.

Thanks for your help guys :)