Mouse problem with Mandrake linux

amushtaq · 09-15-2005, 09:02 PM

Hi i am using Mandrake Linux 10.1and i have a PS/2, 2 button scroll mouse. It was working fine previoulsy but for a few days at boot-up the mouse doesn't work i have to run drakconf and select the mouse type again( i select Generic PS/2 Wheel mouse and that's what it was previously) after which it works perfect till the next boot. I don't have a clue what's going on can anybody help me about it.
Thanks

Regards
Asif Mushtaq

flower.Hercules · 09-16-2005, 05:18 PM

You can try this little trick:

Type `ls -la /dev/mouse` in the terminal to find where you mouse is, the output I get is:

Code:

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 15 Sep 16 15:54 /dev/mouse -> /dev/input/mice

Which means that the mouse is at /dev/input/mice

Now, go into your xorg.conf and put this in your mouse section:

Code:

 Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

Replacing the location with your own. Make sure your mouse is working at the time, or else it might not report a location. The total mouse section might look like this:

Code:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier   "Mouse0"
        Driver       "mouse"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Buttons" "9"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "false"

Also, your Protocol might be incorrect. By the way, don't go changing your section to match mine, that could turn out bad. The identifier may be different (mouse1, for example).

HTH

amushtaq · 09-17-2005, 01:13 AM

Thank you very much for your comment it worked out for me. Actually what i noticed was the mouse section had this line.

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

a listing on /dev/mouse showed this when mouse was working

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Sep 17 09:10 /dev/mouse -> psaux

i did the listing again when mouse wasn't working but there was no /dev/mouse link so what i did was that i changed the /dev/mouse in Option line to /dev/psaux and it's working perfect now.
Again thank you very much for your help

Asif Mushtaq

andy-tux · 09-20-2005, 07:37 PM

on my mandrake 10.1, i made this one mod to xorg.conf:

Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
changed to:
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse0"

it started working after that.