mouse and keyboard, nada

papa0822 · 03-14-2003, 06:51 PM

Right now my comp. is in use by others, but when i get a chance to copy it out of slack, I will try to post it. thanks all

trn · 03-14-2003, 07:27 PM

heres mine, might help? probly not but anyways.. really standard stuff w/ old 8 year old ps2 kb and ms usb explorer mouse.

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Resolution" "200"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"

EndSection

ava · 03-15-2003, 05:43 AM

okay here's mine (ps/2 mouse/keyboard):

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

EndSection

*** note: i have belgian keyboard...

*any* ideas would be welcome... thx

jelly · 03-15-2003, 07:24 AM

well that looks ok
(assuming you also have a section in XF86Config called "ServerLayout" that calls these two input devices (maybe at the end of the file?))

have you had a look at XFree86.0.log?
(less /var/log/XFree86.0.log)

that might give us a clue - especially any lines flagged as errors
(grep EE /var/log/XFree86.o.log)

Aussie · 03-15-2003, 07:34 AM

Try IMPS/2 for your mouse protocol.

ava · 03-15-2003, 10:30 AM

i have a serverlayout at the end of my file, no errors, and IMPS/2 does not work...

but i've found another thing: my keyboard blanks out the second i try to use my mouse... have you got that too papa0822? do you perhaps have a compaq, coz i heared about special problems with compaq

anyway, after a bit of googling, i came across this: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Oper..._11791579.html (sorry for the spam...)

will test that later

edit: never mind for me, i connected serial, no problems anymore... i'm thinking it's a ps/2 conflict, but everthing works fine under ms windows

papa0822 · 03-15-2003, 09:47 PM

ava, no compaq, home built job here, mouse and keyboard are cordless set Micro Innovations Office kb&mouse, both work off the same dual line transeiver connected to both ps/2 ports.

snocked · 03-16-2003, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by boreo
Does your mouse and keyboard work under mandrake?.. If they do just copy your xf86config setup for the mouse, and add them to your slack xf86config. It should work fine if you do that.... I do not use mandrake but my xf86config is located at /etc/X11/xf86config.. In both Slack and Redhat... Before you change anything make sure you do a backup of your already created xf86config file. Good luck.

I tried copying my XF86Config from my Red Hat partition to compare, but same values for mouse in Slack don't work.

boreo · 03-16-2003, 03:19 PM

I guess that not all values works.. Because my mouse wasn't working at all and I copy my Redhat values to Slack and it works fine...

papa0822 · 03-17-2003, 05:18 AM

Alas Success of a sort. After trashing my MBR last night and reinstalling mandrake9.1, I now have a linux OS running, It just isn't slack. Gonna work on that next, but first I will get used to using this one.
To all of you out there who tried to hepl me, THANK YOU, But rmrember I am very new to this and will be bugging you for more help in the future.

Aussie · 03-17-2003, 06:39 AM

Have a look at mandrakes XF86Config, and post the keyboard and pointer sections.

papa0822 · 03-17-2003, 06:07 PM

Aussie and all the others who asked for this, here it is, my xf86config4 from mandrake 9.1beta3

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbCompat" ""
Option "XkbOptions" ""
EndSection

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

Hope it gives you a clue.

As I posted this morning, I now have mdk9.1 up and running, however it was a byt__ to get going. I reinstalled everything, then when I set up lilo, I put it into the MBR of my 1st drive. Only thing it did was stop me from booting anything. Ran fdisk/mbr, copied my windoze boot loader back into it, tried to boot from the boot floppy,,, no go, booted from a slackware boot floppy just changed the mnt root to my mandrake partition, it booted with a lot of errors, with the mouse and keyboard working, so I ran xf86config, reste my settings and saved it,,,,, to the wrong dirrectory, then finished booting up. It worked but with alot of errors. Gave up, went to bed. This morning when i tornrd it on, I put the mdk boot floppy in, it booted( don't know why) it worked and so does mandrake now.. go figure.

boreo · 03-17-2003, 09:45 PM

You look like your having a bit of problems eh... Your mouse config is exactly the same as mines, and I'm running Slack.. So if your mouse and keyboard are working fine with MDK9, they should work fine with your slack if you edit the xf86config and make your mouse config like the one on mdk.. Well.. Good luck..

papa0822 · 03-19-2003, 07:47 PM

Am Giving up on slack till I have more experience with using and configuring linux. thanks all