USB Optical Mouse

abtimoteo · 06-02-2007, 10:27 PM

How do you configure a Slackware machine to recognize a USB optical mouse?

Nem · 06-02-2007, 10:32 PM

Usb mouses usually work out of the box for me.
Did you run mouseconfig ?

H_TeXMeX_H · 06-02-2007, 10:54 PM

Also, what kernel are you running ?

abtimoteo · 06-02-2007, 11:09 PM

mouseconfig helped.

tomcdyer · 06-07-2007, 04:01 PM

how do i run mouseconfig?

typing it into konsole does nothing

Thanks

slackdogg · 06-07-2007, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tomcdyer

how do i run mouseconfig?

typing it into konsole does nothing

Thanks

mouseconfig is in /usr/sbin, and at least on my system, is not in the user's $PATH.

Simply put, you have to be root to do it.

It's a system configuration anyway, so that makes sense.

You can

$ su -c mouseconfig

And then you will need to supply the root password.

(The $ represents the user prompt; you don't type it.)

As always, be careful when root!

tomcdyer · 06-08-2007, 12:15 PM

Thanks,

BTW im not a linux newbie