Hi mates! I have the funniest mouse of the planet. It works perfectly, but let me say just when it wants to. Well, the cursor always works perfectly, but the wheel does it when it wants... One day works, then I restart the computer and it doesn't, afterwards I restart it again and who knows what will happen?

I have an Labtec optical mouse PS/2 with wheel. Currently I have selected as a mouse driver 'Generic wheel mouse PS/2'. Sometimes I have to select none and restart. Afterwards, I have to select 'Generic wheel mouse PS/2' and restart again to make it to work.

Any suggestion?

Thanks to all for your help!!

Hi Musikolo!!!

Try running ./mouseconfig located at /usr/sbin/mouseconfig. Earlier versions of RedHat (at least, 7.3 for me) also gave me odd problems with mouse. The solution was setting up my ordinary mouse wheel as Microsoft Intellimouse (PS/2). I've not had such problem with RedHat 9.0... but we never know.

Good luck

Thanks mate, but I've tried to access that program using 'setup' command. Anyway, your help has been and still is welcome...

See you around! :d

I've a Labtec Cordless Desktop that's to say wireless mouse and
Keyboard. I've had a lot of problems with the mouse (2 buttons +
wheel). Sometimes left button was no more active and I had to
restart Kde to reconfigure the mouse correctly but not for a long
time.
I just found out that it could be a XFree86 pb. I've modified some
parameter and since yesterday it's OK. I don't know if the pb is definitively solved. Look if this hint helps you.
Bye

Thanks nadine.mauch for your help. I just have a doubt, what's that of 'XFree86 pb'? I don't know what parameters you changed to solve this problem. If you could be a little bit more explicity, I'd be glad of it.

Cheers!!

As I told you I made some modifications in my XF86Config File
but after a day of use the mouse "lost the right button".
I've found another solution
http://sdb.suse.de/de/sdb/wessels_sax.html#Mausprobleme
if you understand german
Else :
I modified /etc/init.d/boot.local to add this line
/usr/sbin/sysp -s mouse > /dev/null
So that my Imps/2 mouse will be correctly initialised at boot
Then I modified XF86Config file so I obtained the paragraph
as you see it below

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "mouse"
Identifier "Mouse[1]"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "Name" "AutoDetected"
Option "Protocol" "imps/2"
Option "Vendor" "AutoDetected"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Endsection

Note : my mouse is a PS2 mouse (not USB) 2 buttons and wheel
and cordless
It seems that the problem was correctly initialize mouse and then
choose the correct PS2 protocol and eventually correct
management of the wheel

Hope it solves your problem too.
Bye