Hi all,

I recently got a new mouse for my windowz box and thought it would be a fairly simple job of using my old mouse on my linux box...if only!

I powered down and changed the mouse over then rebooted. I got the setup screen with a selection of different mice but mine wasn't on the list. I tried various options and Tested them but on that screen I couldn't get the mouse to work so I chose the standard USB MOUSE option and applied the new settings.

When I got into KDE my mouse was not working properly. :-/ When I moved the mouse windows started appearing in from of others and the "left click menu" popped up in different places.

The mouse is a logitech USB Optical/Wheel mouse, I've been to the logitech site but they don't have drivers for Linux?

Now when I reboot I don't get the options screen to test other options. What can I do??

Am I really this limited by the options I was given to what mouse I can use?

Thanks in advance

What does your Xconfig or Xconfig-4 under /etc/X11/ show for mouse settings. This is where changes will be made for Xserver.

Thanks for you help Brian.

I saw this config stuff in other posts but didn't know where to look. It took me a while without a mouse :-)

This is the config:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "InputFashion" "Mouse"
Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
Option "Protocol" "ps/2"
Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"

(It is not set to ps/2 because I added a USB-PS/2 Connector as the USB didn't work...)


I have it open in Konqueror but I don't know how to edit it?

Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Resolution" "800"
Option "SampleRate" "200"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"

This is what I use to get my Logitech mx500 and several other modern USB mice to work (including the Razer Boomslang 1000 and 2000)

Edit the resolution to match your mouse.
Edit the ZAxismapping aswell. Might be "4 5" on your mouse.

Hope this helped you.

Hi muflon and thanks for your help. This is probably a real dumb question but how can I edit this file? I've looked at all the options in Konqueror and can't find one to open the file in Kedit etc?

Also how do I know what to use for the resolution? You say to match my mouse but I don't know what the resolution of my mouse is?

If I delete this part of the file will I get the setup screen when I reboot?

Thanks again

in konqueror,right click on the file and there will be options like open with etc.try it.
else open a konsole window and run kedit.
use trial and error method to match the resolution.
there wont be much problems (usually)associated with 'playing with your mouse settngs and all'.
Cheers,
arun

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These things are set in a file called XF86Config or XF86Config-4 depending on your distro. The file is usually found in /etc/X11 (preferably) or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11. It might even be in your home folder or such.

Open this file up with you favorite editor. Since you are using KDE I suggest Kwrite or as you mentioned Kedit. Back up the file before making changes.

The resolution or dpi is found in the manual of your mouse or do some google.com browsing for info. Mostly modern optical mice has 800.

You need to restart X for changes to get through.

I hope this was of some help. Being a non-usual-distro user and used to shell I might have not made myself understandable. Ask again and Ill try another angle

muflon, your advice has worked for me, I'm able to edit the right file but so far I've been unable to get my mouse to work.

I will spend more time on it this week and try a few different config options. There is a lot of info on this site with lots of config options, it's just getting the time to try it out.

Thanks again...