Re: mouse and x problems
Hi,
I too had a little trouble getting my USB mouse configured correctly in slack. If everything is working cool, but in case it helps, here's how I set mine up in slackware 9...
1. GPM will give you a mouse in the console. As long as you can cat /dev/input/mice and get some garbage, you're in... change the two lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm which say:
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2
to
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/input/mice -t imps2
providing you used imps2 as your mouse driver. If not set it to imps2 using pkgconfig as this will give you wheel finctionality. Now kill GPM with killall -9 gpm and then restart GPM with /etc/rc.d/rc.gpm (all as root obviously). You should now have a working mouse on the console.
2. In XF86Config, look for your mouse settings, they should look something like this:-
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
where Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" gives you wheel mouse finctionality, and Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" giving you wheel life.
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" points to your USB mouse.
I have a Logitech Optical Wheel Mouse, but the above results gave me the full functionality of the mouse in slack 9. Hope this helps,
munkeh
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