How can I get an external mouse working on my laptop with SUSE 9.3?

michaels70 · 05-11-2005, 09:38 PM

I recently installed SUSE 9.3 on my HP Pavilion ZV5000. It already has a touchpad that SUSE configured correctly but I would also like to use an external Generic USB mouse. When I plug it in I see it correctly identified in the /etc/messages but I can not use it even if I disable the touchpad. I tried using YaST to force it to a USB mouse and even reboot but only the touchpad works.

Any ideas?

Thanks :-)

jschiwal · 05-12-2005, 04:03 AM

My HP laptop is a different model, however, I am able to plug in a USB mouse and use it. Perhaps you should give us details on the mouse model, and the section of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that deals with the mouse.