Mouse is borked under slack10 but fine in slack9.1
Evening.
I recieved a copy of the new Slack10 as a DVD installer. Everything is awesome and good but I am having real issues with my mice under X. Now with slackware 10 and under any desktop enviroment the mouse is non-responsive and just sits there in the middle of the screen. I've used my pre-existing xorg.conf file from my previous slack9.1 but no luck. Other methods i've tried are - creating new xorg.confs using xorgconfig - tested with another USB mouse (MS Explorer) - tested with other mouse devices in /dev/input and /dev/mice but that causes Xorg to crash back to the terminal. I did try using a PS/2 mouse, that sorta had a little sucess but the mouse cursor keeps jumping down to the very bottom of the left hand corner. You can sort of control the mouse cursor but if you stop movement of the mouse, the cursor will jump back into the corner position. It also sometimes automatically starts clicking and selecting things by itself like how broken mice behave. Does anyone have any ideas? |
Post the relevant part of your xorg.config and can you add more informations, like if you use hotplug, and if you run kernel 2.6.xx do you use udev feature ?
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Re: Mouse is borked under slack10 but fine in slack9.1
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if its a ps2, try /dev/psaux
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doh. forgot about that sort of info :o
I"m using the default kernel of 2.4.26 (I like stableness) The mouse is a 3 button Mitsubishi Diamond Touch T210 My xorg.conf pointer device looks like this Code:
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Is /dev/mouse pointing to /dev/psaux? If so you might try deleting /dev/mouse and relinking it to /dev/input/mice. Interestingly enough this fixed the problem for me permanently even though udev rewrote the link. (using 2.6.7) No idea why, but it is working and that is enough for me.
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2. If it is pointed as "/dev/psaux" delete the soft link by typing "rm /dev/mouse" 3. Now create a new link to input/mice by typing "ln -s /dev/input/mice /dev/mouse" 4. Finally do a quick "ls -l /dev/mouse" to confirm it worked and then startx. |
Thanks Mephisto, that sorted the problem and the mouse works great now. :)
Wonder why it decided to change though. |
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