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.

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

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.

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