Mouse not working, Ug!!!
 

I'm stumped!

My mouse doesn't work in Mandrake. Nor did it work when I installed Mandrake.
I only use a generic infrared USB mouse, and i've installed all the right drivers.

Could it have something to do with the fact that I'm installing Mandrake on a Laptop with a touchpad?

yes

absolutely! my settings
/dev/mouse is touchpad
/dev/usbmouse is my logitec

I don't know infrare in linux, but I do know that if you lauch harddrake in drakconf, it will probally do everything for you. installing and probing, all that...

Thanks a ton for the reply, but, could you speak in laymen terms?

I am very very very new to linux.

i.e. what is harddrake and drakeconf?

If it matters at all, my computer froze during auto check for hardware during the install, I had to install with the noauto parameter.

very simple terms, then...

do you use kde?
can you tell what is your enviroment?

drakconf is a program
in kde-> alt+f2
type drakconf

>>OR<<

at konsole (or console)
type drakconf

after that, go in hardware, then in harddrake

it will help if you have mandrake 9.2 like me
otherwise, you will have to specify in your profile the distribution you are using...

i had to add lines to the file /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 (mandrake 10) if this is what you are using i will send you a copy of my XF86Config-4 file, and highlight the changes i made, perhaps this would help?

yes, please post it.
make sure to included the brand and type of mouse

Alright, for clarification.

I am using Mandrake 10.0

I installed Mandrake on a Laptop with a touchpad. Although there is a touchpad, I do not USE the touchpad, I use a standard USB mouse.

However, even though I have the universal p2/USB drivers installed, according to Mandrake, my mouse does not work!!!

I've even navigated my way to drafconf or harddrake or whatever, and confirmed that I have the Universal USB/p2 mouse drivers selected.

I'm assuming the problem has something to do with the fact my laptop does have a touchpad, even though its not used.

what does windows has to say with the hardware and how it's working?

My lap top has a touch pad and my USB wireless mouse was working fine I couldn't figger out how to make the touch pad work at all. But I have know Idea what I did but now I have know mouse and because I'm new to linux I don't know how to do anything with out it yet.

resend your message with , and . at the correct places, making sure to spell check, and I will help you. Welcome to LQ, BTW, I see this is your first message...

Here, we try to have the lowest 'net slang possible, and the highest english possible

try this, just to see if it is picked up...
cat /dev/usbmouse
then move your mouse around, see if you get ascii garbage on your screen, if so, then you need to add lines to your /etc/XF86Config-4 file

I am also a newbie, and im having kind of the same problem here, i have a dual boot with mandrake 8.2 and windows XP
I have a usb generic wheel mouse, and another ps/2 mouse... both are recognized by windows and linux. but when i am using linux i cant use either of the mouse.... they were working during the installation. and i dont have a touch pad... i have done my best to navigate through linux with the keyboard, which by the way, its usb too and works perfect, and read a post that said to add this line to modules.conf
alias mouse usbmouse

and i did but nothing happened, i don tknow what else to do now

i had to edit my /etc/X11/XFree86Config file to make both mice work. you can test them by doing the

cat /dev/mouse and cat/dev/usb/mice or cat /dev/usbmouse and moving your mice around and get junk printed onto your screen. (use ctrl-c to quit)

if you still need help, I'll post my copy of XFree86Config lines that need added

I did as you suggested, and got garbage on the screen as you described.

My mouse, a Logitech cordless wheel mouse, works fine on Mandrake 9.2 on either USB port or PS2, but under Mandrake 10.1 Official it won't scroll, at all, no matter what port and no matter what kind of mouse I select using harddrake.

Please help a fellow Kansas Citian by posting the lines you added to your /etc/X11/XFree86Config file!

Thanks!

EDIT (several min. later)

I found how I had to change the file, by doing some more searching. And now I remember that part of the problem (or maybe all of it) is that in this release the harddrake utility fails to update the files as it should.

The type of protocol had to be changed to IMPS/2 and the x/y mapping changed from "6 7" to "4 5" as this mouse has only five "buttons" (as Linux sees things).

I am not too happy with 10.1 working less well than 9.2. Screen repainting is messy compared to 9.2, for one thing. The mouse problem (Google shows LOTS of complaints about that) is another.

I don't know why 10 mapped it to 6 7 but i have heard of that. wonder if it's a kde 3.3 thing?

I read SOMEWHERE in these forums that release 10 had a harddrake that failed to update config. files. Indeed that seems to have been what happened.

Not good.

Mandrake 10.1 mouse problems
 

I had the same problem under the New MDK 10.1 Official. I this worked for me:

1) I got into a tty terminal (Alt+Ctrl+F1) and login as root.
2) edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf change the mouse from "6 7" to "4 5".
3) I also changed the "/dev/mouse" to "/dev/mouse0"
4) startx

If this doesn't work TAB to logout and tweek the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and startx again.

Thanks for your posts!!!

Fletch
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Running Mandrake 10.1 Official
IBM ThinkPad T20
PIII-500/256MB/20GB

Mouse not working on Mandrake 10.1
 

I just installed Mandrake 10.1, and since my mouse wasn't working, I went to work with Google. It got me here. No one seemed to have the answer, although there was much tried.

I suppose in a round-about way, reading this thread helped me with the answer. For me, it turned out to be the XF86config listing the mouse as /dev/mouse.

When I went to the dev directory, I didn't have a /dev/mouse, but I had a /dev/mouse0. So I did the "cat /dev/mouse0" and moved the mouse and got junk. So I knew that was the right device..

So I went to the XF86config file, and changed the Mouse 1 area accordingly.

Here it is specifically:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse0"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


I changed the ZaxisMapping from "6 7" and the "/dev/mouse" to "/dev/mouse0"

Anyway, I don't know if it will work for everyone, but it worked for me. I just have a plain old ps/2 mouse plugged in through a Belkin switch (which is initially what I thought the problem was).

One other strange thing that happened.. Once I made these changes, although I had Gnome load on boot (which it would do just fine when the mouse wasn't working), once I made this change, Gnome wouldn't load and just gave me the login prompt. I suppose it's a bit strange, because if this was going to make it crash out, I figure it wouldn't work with "startx". Startx works just fine.

Hope someone finds this useful.

D.J.

startx
 

you could put startx in your ~/.bashrc last line, sometimes you must add the line


source $HOME/.bashrc

in the last line of your /etc/profile to make sure it is called with every login, but be warned, it will call it even from rvxt or xterm sessions if you do this. There is a way to only do this on a login shell, but i can't remember how exactly, it's just too early in the morning ;)