usb mouse not working

eduardo_ha · 12-03-2002, 07:34 AM

i'm using a "Fellowes" optical USB mouse under RedHat 8.0 and it doesn't work. It didn't work during the installation process and it doesn't work now. It has never worked!

I tried plugging in a different USB mouse (a microsoft optical mouse) and it worked perfectly. Is there any way of getting my Fellowes mouse to work or will I have to buy another one supported by RedHat.

By the way, I'm a newbie!

Thanks in advance!

Eduardo

MasterC · 12-03-2002, 01:36 PM

You can either get another, or you an get a usb/serial converter. I think you can pick em up for like 20 bux US at somewhere like kmart/walmart.

Cool

eduardo_ha · 12-04-2002, 08:59 AM

unfurtunatly my laptop does not have a serial port so i can`t plug the usb in it using a converter...

thanks again

eduardo

zLinuxz · 12-04-2002, 06:47 PM

heheh, have you tried this "Fellowes" mouse on another computer????

maybe your mouse is just useless. Get a new one.

eduardo_ha · 12-05-2002, 01:00 AM

my Fellowes mouse works under Windows...

thanks for the sarcasm anyway.

Eduardo

MasterC · 12-06-2002, 12:09 AM

That sux then. But I don't really know what else to say but what z said. Logitech makes a decent USB optical mouse for really cheap. Check out www.pricewatch.com and you can probably find a better deal than I did on mine (20 bucks for a logitech iFeel).

If you plug in one mouse, it works just fine, but the other refuses to work even with the X config tweaks, then I'd say get one that does work. It's gotta be the easiest solution. Not the cheapest, although it is very cheap, but still probably the easiest.

Cool

zLinuxz · 12-06-2002, 08:05 PM

yeah...that is weird that it works in Windows, and not in Linux, if other opticals work in Linux. hmmm.
I mean...I've personally never heard that brand name of mouse....it might just be that because it's so unknown, there's no usb support for that specific mouse....specially if there's something really "unique" about the mouse...and not a generic one. Anyway, get a new mouse

sidewalking · 01-08-2003, 06:10 PM

I have a Fellowes Opti-Gel optical mouse and it works just fine. It is a USB, but it comes with a PS/2 adapter, which I use. Through the PS/2 port, it is just like any other optical PS/2 mouse.

zLinuxz · 01-08-2003, 11:36 PM

heh...WEll, for all of you "Optical Mouse" Geeks, I challenge you.
No Optical Mouse works on the surface of my desk!,

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, Eat it all of ya!!,

, Ball moving Mouse ROCK!!!!!

snocked · 01-10-2003, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by zLinuxz
heh...WEll, for all of you "Optical Mouse" Geeks, I challenge you.
No Optical Mouse works on the surface of my desk!,

maybe your desk is just useless. Get a new one.

Aussie · 01-10-2003, 08:15 AM

My optical mouse is rocks.....and all my buttons work :-)

zLinuxz · 01-10-2003, 12:26 PM

Naw..it's just that the Claim that Optical mouses' work in "ALL" surfaces, is a big fat LIE,

MasterC · 01-11-2003, 12:06 AM

Suposedly the newer ones do. They work on glass, plexi whatever. I've not had the need to find out, however, this is the claim

Cool

tied2 · 01-12-2003, 12:41 PM

Try running xf86config it has a option for a usb mouse I have a logitech usb mouse and love it .

icsmurfs · 01-22-2003, 10:12 PM

Hmm... I have a USB Logitech Cordless Optical Mouseman w/Wheel, and it worked during the installation process, now it does not work at all under X. Distribution RedHat 8.0.... any thoughts?