Genius wireless Optical Office - Mouse Problems

[sandrokottos]

I have a Qubic 3401 SFF machine. 2.6 GHz 800 fsb Pentium, 1 GHz 400 MHz RAM, 160Hz SATA drive with the above mouse/keyboard. On booting, the mouse isn't always found by Mandrake 9.2, with all the updates. Checking the logs this coincides with failed insmod for the mouse and hid. Recovery involves completely powering down, reboot on it's own doesn't help. Yes the batteries are OK. It works OK with Knoppix and (yuk) XP.

The mouse is a PS2 protocol, wheel mouse on usb in XF96config-4. I've tried setting other usb mice in mousedrake but it's doesn't help.

 

A standard PS2 mouse into the PS2 port is fine.

 

Any ideas? java script:emoticon('')

[bvc]

Welcome to the board!

The mouse is a PS2 protocol, wheel mouse on usb in XF96config-4.

I'm confused. Is it a ps/2 or usb? If it's ps/2 how can it be on usb? converter?

 

if usb

You could try puting

    Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

 

 

mine says

Section "InputDevice"
   Identifier "Mouse1"
   Driver "mouse"
   Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
   Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
   Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
   Option "Buttons "5"
EndSection

but it's a usb plugged into ps/2.

 

then put

hid

usbcore

and I think

usbmouse

in /etc/modules and reboot. Is plug N play turned off in the bios? I say think because I'm using the devel kernel2.6 with udev and it's now mousedev.

[sandrokottos]

Thanks for the reply.

 

My XFConfig-4 has

 

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"

Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

 

So I think that this is OK

 

The mouse and keyboard talk to a wireless receiver plugged into USB, the keyboard seems to be OK.

 

My etc/modules only has the SCSI adapter, I'll try adding the USB stuff suggested. I'll check the BIOS as well.

 

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Sandrokottos

[sandrokottos]

Putting the USB stuff in modules seems to do the trick. Ta muchly.

 

Question could be - why didn't the 9.2 istall process do this when it recognised them?

 

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Sandrokottos

[DragonMage]

I guess it's the wireless part that confuses the mandrake installation. One person here have so much trouble with wireless usb mouse not working in his laptop, and finally make it run after plugging a wired usb mouse, let mandrake detect it, then remove it and put wireless one in.