Hi,
I'm having a problem with my HP ZE5300 laptop, with Madriva 10.1. I have a PS2 keyboard attached, which works just fine in Windoze. However, after boot, Madriva seems to think that the keyboard is a mouse (pressing keys does random things with the mouse cursor). Disconnecting the keyboard and reconnecting fixes the problem. However, as this is really annoying, is there anyway to force madriva to recognise the keyboard on the ps2 port?

All help appreciated!

Adam

You could have a look at the keyboard entry in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf (or wherever your distro keeps it.) see xorg.conf(5x) man page too.

I think the relevant section of that file is:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection

The "ExplorerPS/2" looks suspicious! Any ideas what top change it to? My mouse is a Packard Bell CCO-3U wireless optical USB.

Thanks for your help!

The easiest way is to let kudsu do it for you ...

unplug mouse and reboot
kudzu tells you a mouse was removed - remove the configuration
plug in mouse - reboot
kudzu says a mouse was added - configure the mouse

You want a USB mouse that conforms to your config (the wireless-optical part linux dosn't care about... how many buttons, wheels etc it has is important. For eg. Mine is a optical 3-button ps2 wheel mouse ... it uses the IMPS2 generic wheelmouse driver.) Chances are, kudzu will get it right.