Slackware finds my USB board but not mouse

When it loads up, it says something like:
/dev/mouse not found (or something very similar to 'not found')

But the keyboard loads up fine, because i am able to type commands.


Does anyone know how to fix this? If so, please let me know

Did you select USB mouse with the 'mouseconfig' tool?

Yes.

When i select USB Mouse, it doesn't load up the mouse.
When i select PS/2 mouse, the mouse works, but improperly. It skips all over the screen, etc.

In your xorg.conf file, edit the section that has /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice . Also, you can change the PS/2 to IMPS/2. I'm not sure if the last is necessary.

Originally Posted by stormtracknole In your xorg.conf file, edit the section that has /dev/mouse to /dev/input/mice . Also, you can change the PS/2 to IMPS/2. I'm not sure if the last is necessary.

Thanks. Ill go try it out now.

But when you say "you can change the PS/2 to IMPS/2", where do i change that? in the xorg.conf file? because the mouseconfig doesn't let me input any paremeters, just gives me a list of options

back.
changing it to /dev/input/mice didn't do the trick, and im not sure where to change ps/2 to IMPS/2, do i didn't do that yet

Originally Posted by .nu back. changing it to /dev/input/mice didn't do the trick, and im not sure where to change ps/2 to IMPS/2, do i didn't do that yet

Change it on the xorg file. Another question, are you using the 2.4 kernel provided by Slackware?

Originally Posted by stormtracknole Change it on the xorg file. Another question, are you using the 2.4 kernel provided by Slackware?

i'm using the SATA.I kernel, that did come on the slackware CD. (slackware 10.2)

Ok. i was in the xorg conf file.

it had
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "Microsoft"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

I changed 'microsoft' to PS/2 and IMPS/2, but no luck.

Originally Posted by .nu i'm using the SATA.I kernel, that did come on the slackware CD. (slackware 10.2) Ok. i was in the xorg conf file. it had Option "Protocol" "Microsoft". I changed microsoft to PS/2 and IMPS/2, but no luck.

Hmmm...boy, I'm stumped. I had the same problem that you had, but changing the device section to /dev/input/mice did the trick. If I think of anything else I'll post it, but right now I don't know what else to try.

Originally Posted by .nu i'm using the SATA.I kernel, that did come on the slackware CD. (slackware 10.2) Ok. i was in the xorg conf file. it had Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "Microsoft" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" (Did you change this to "/dev/input/mice" ?) I changed 'microsoft' to PS/2 and IMPS/2, but no luck.

Post your current xorg.conf file, just for the heck of it.

Originally Posted by stormtracknole Post your current xorg.conf file, just for the heck of it.

lol.
If you're willing to tell me how to save it into a USB thumbdrive (dont have a floppy one), i'll be more than happy to do do

Did you change this:
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"

to this:

Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"

That is the only thing that I can think of.

Originally Posted by stormtracknole Did you change this: Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" to this: Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" That is the only thing that I can think of.

I had tried that.

But i managed to make it work, ill post here how i did it in case someone has the same problem in the future.

I ran the xorgconfig again. It gives you a bunch of mouse options to select from. I remember PS/2 was an option, and Microsoft was another option. But before all the options, was Auto.

I had selected Microsoft before, as my mouse is by Microsoft.

So this time, i selected Auto, and went through the rest of the installation, and it worked


Just another question:
How do make thumb/flash drives work?


ps: thanks to everyone that has helped me so far!

Glad to hear that you got it to work. As far as your usb drive, you may want to do a search because it has been discussed here before.

Originally Posted by stormtracknole Glad to hear that you got it to work. As far as your usb drive, you may want to do a search because it has been discussed here before.

Alright will do.
Thanks again.