mouse problem

swordlaw · 02-03-2006, 09:04 AM

Hi ya all!

I'm having trouble with my mouse (it doesn't move),it is a Genius NetMouse Wheel Serial .
I've already tried modifying xorg.conf archive but it doesn't seem to be working, I've changed the protocol type and the port type and nothing happens.
Even so, it doesn't appear any error message.
But the mouse is actually working on windows XP, and it worked on other distributions such as Mandrake or Suse.

Please if any one has an answer to this I'd appreciate it very much.

Thanx.

odevans · 02-03-2006, 02:16 PM

Hi swordlaw, welcome aboard.

Could you post the output of:

Code:

user@box:$  ls -l /dev/mouse

/dev/mouse should be a symlink pointing to the actual device. As you have a serial mouse (right?) it's possible that the link isn't pointing at the right device.

You could also try:

Code:

root@box:#  cat /dev/mouse

Move the mouse and you should see a bunch of nonsense (random characters and glyphs) show up.

swordlaw · 02-04-2006, 09:51 PM

ok Thank you very much odevans, and thanx for recieving me , the mouse appears to be working now with those you told me, even so i bought a ps/2 mouse optical and it works great except for two things

1) the gpm program in the console appears to be working but nothing happends (the mouse doesn't move or copy anything)

2) the scrool whell's not working , (i've tryied typing ZAxisMapping etc....on xorg.conf file,but nothing happends)

So I bother you again if you're so kind...

Thanx again

Furlinastis · 02-05-2006, 03:07 PM

Try

Code:

xmodmap -e "pointer 1 2 3 6 7 4 5"

rearranging the numbers to fit how you configured it in xorg.conf, add it to your startup script. That should fix the scroll wheel.