Well the things which i edited were - i scre*ed my whole comp. Thanks for giving me wrong advice - its just because of some of my friends I could get out of this....

Nothing personal...ya English is not my first lanuage. I never been on Linux before nor i am a techie guy. But wish to run linux for some of my personal project. To be candid its not an easy OS but it does have its own good feeling. I did stumble upon this forum many times when I was googlin for various things that I could not find in Linux. Finally joined this forum and yes this forum has helped me a lot getting started. I still feel that stingx did the best to help me. And it was my fault that I went out of my way, just out of sheer frustration.

I did come back and payed my apologies saying that - stingx hope you can understand my situation - its been a week that i am on linux...please take a note of the wrong advice given....

My apologies to all.

I, for one am glad you came back, umeshz, although after reading the full thread, I can perhaps see why stingx got so upset. I understand being frustrated when things don't work--as a Linux user for almost four years now, I've broken plenty of things, but the people here really are trying to help.

On any given *nix system, there are a number of variables that can make a seemingly identical setup work on one system and not on another. Newbies: be careful when someone posts an entire config; Old Salts: please be patient with noobs when things don't work right away.

umeshz, there are a number of very knowledgeable, very helpful people both on this web site, and on others. Read everything you can, have fun with Linux, and good luck with your system!

I am also having the same problem. I tried using the parts of the config file Munkar posted and he only difference I could see beween his and mine was in the "Protocol" field, mine is "ps/2" instead of "IMPS/2" . I wasn't sure what that was so I left it alone. Can anyone help?

linux_yoda
You probably shouldn't use the IMPS/2 protocol. The protocol tells the system what kind of a mouse you've got (ordinary mouse, trackball, touchpad). The easiest setting is "auto" in the protocol field. Then the system detects which mouse (but this doesn't always work). I've also found out that my config file doesn't work everywhere. So you should try
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

umeshz, linux_yoda,

OK, after the unhappy start of this thread, lets try to get the problem solved.

One thing first: If you ever modify a config file, keep a copy of the original file! If Linux does not give ou a flashy klicky wizard, you have to take care yourselves to back up the system state.

And now: The mouse.
Is the mouse really connected by /dev/psaux ? You can check this by
or if hd (hexdump) is not on you box.
You probably have to be root or sudo this.

If you move the mouse now, there should be a response on the screen (if you had to use cat, it will bee funny characters, you will probably have to reset the console later with ).

OK, we verified now your mouse is on /dev/psaux and the mouse wheel yeilds data in this device. Good.

Now, the PS/2 and IM/PS2 topic: You may always replace the "ImPS/2" by the original value to recover. ImPS/2 is just the addition of the wheel feature.

I suspect something else went wrong as umeshz edited his config file. If some Redhatters are out here, maybe they can tell how to reconfigure X11 in an rpm-based system, in my Debian systems, it is done easily by , which goes through the whole X11 installation again and rebuilds the config files to default. Unless you have a copy of the "working" file (some editors automatically make an backup with an additional .bak extension or with a ~ suffixed to the file name), this is the best way to get the whole mess back to installation state. Worst case, you have to remove X and the xdm/kdm/gdm stuff completely and reinstall it - that's why it is so important to keep backups.

I got my wheel mouse, touch pad and USB mouse working by googeling for the appropriate HOWTOS, such as http://linuxreviews.org/howtos/xfree/mouse/ and http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc.../XFree86-HOWTO - this is the hard way. Remember: This sort of problems is FAQ and show up in threads here and elsewhere regularly, so it is always a good idea to try to find things yourself before posting a new thread that has been done 1000 times better before.

I can understand your disappointment finding out your config is busted. But there is no thing as well documented on the net as Linux, you can find help everywhere. The whole Linux support is done by the community, and thus you have to deal with people which all may have their tempers, moods and pride. Try to ask yourself, if you would address a M$-Hotline supporter the same way and for the same Questions - I know, M$ Support is expensive, so automatically one tries to find a solution without having to pay by reading the FAQ.

OK, now lets go to work, may the next 5000 weeks with Linux be much better for you! Have fun and enjoy!

I hope my EUR 0.02 helped.

Regards,

Peter